Workers Federation Union members and Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) employees protested jointly in front of the MahaVitaran building at SB road in Pune on Friday. In a show of defiance against what they call a "corporate takeover" of state power utility powers, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Maharashtra State Electricity Employees, Engineers, and Officers will rally over 1.5 lakhs permanent staff and contract laborers for a state-wide one-day strike on October 9. The action is the culmination of a carefully planned agitation calendar, spanning years of seething resentment against the Maharashtra government's alleged going back on commitments to safeguard the sector from privatisation.

'Threatening the very existence of our public utilities'

The JAC,

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