Addressing the protest meeting, speakers including Chanchal Kumar Singh and Jagjit Singh Behal from the Railways, Naresh Lal from BSNL, M.L. Singh from the banking sector, Sadhan Kumar Sinha from the Postal Department, G.N. Sharma, K.D. Rai Vyathit and Md. Shamim Akhtar said that the struggle would continue until the government withdraws the so-called anti-employee and anti-pensioner amendment passed in Parliament through the Finance Bill on March 25. They warned that the agitation would be further intensified.
The speakers said that district-level protests are being held across the country. In the first phase of the movement, a human chain was formed on July 25, 2025, followed by a state-level convention in Ranchi on August 24, 2025. In September 2025, a memorandum was submitted to the Governor of Jharkhand, and another memorandum was also handed over to Minister of State for Defence and MP Sanjay Seth.
In the second phase, memoranda containing three key demands will be sent to the Prime Minister through emails and postcards by January 15. On Saturday as well, two dozen postcards were sent to the Prime Minister’s Office by central pensioners from various departments. The association also announced that a state-level protest and convention would be organised in February 2026.
The protest witnessed participation from representatives of Railways (AIRF), banks, BSNL Pensioners Association, Postal/RMS Pensioners Association and a large number of central pensioners. The proceedings of the protest meeting were conducted by M.Z. Khan.
Earlier, a meeting held at Ranchi GPO under the chairmanship of K.D. Rai Vyathit decided that Jharkhand would send 30 delegates to the Fourth National Convention to be held at Guwahati on March 28–29. Of these, 10 delegates will be from Ranchi, 4 from Dhanbad, 3 from Palamu, 5 from Jamshedpur, 2 each from Hazaribagh, Giridih, Dumka and Gumla.
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