A known trade union leader of Himachla Pradesh and former General Secretary of Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEBL) Employees’ Union, Chander Singh Mandial passed away after a prolonged illness on Monday morning.
According to a source Mandial was not keeping well for quite some time and was undergoing treatment in a hospital at Chandigarh.
Mandial, considered one of the strong trade union leaders of the state remained General Secretary of HPSEBL Employees Union from 1979 to 2007. He led several agitations against the state government demanding capital allowance, scrapping ‘no work- no pay’ policy implemented by Shanta Kumar led BJP government, etc.
He was dismissed from the service by the then Shanta Kumar government in 1992 but was reinstated by the Virbhadra Singh government after a regime change in 1993. He was General Secretary of HPSEBL pensioner’s union .
His mortal remains were consigned to flames at Hanuman Ghat Mandi on Monday. HPSEBL employees’ union and other trade union leaders have mourned the death of Mandial.
