ASHAs to end protest outside Secretariat

A group of ASHA workers who were holding a day-night protest outside the Kerala Secretariat here for 265 days, demanding to hike their honorarium to Rs 21,000 and Rs 5 lakh as post-retirement benefits, Friday announced the end of their current mode of agitation.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The Kerala ASHA Health Workers Association (KAH-WA), which has been leading the protest, said that their agitation will now move to the grassroots level in the districts.

KAHWA state general secretary MA Bindu said that they will also campaign against the LDF in the upcoming local body polls.

“We will tell people not to vote for this government,” she said.

She further said that the protest could have been ended or settled within 10-15 days, but was prolonged for so long - 265 days -- because of the state government.

“So, that politics has to be told to the people and we will do that,” Bindu said.