Mathura authorities reinstate sanitation worker sacked over PM's portrait in garbage cart
India Today
The sanitation worker in Mathura lost his job after a viral video emerged of him pushing a garbage cart with pictures of PM Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath inside.
The authorities here reinstated a sanitation worker on Tuesday, days after he was sacked when portraits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were found in his garbage cart.
The decision to terminate his services faced severe criticism on social media.
Following this, Municipal Commissioner, Mathura-Vrindavan Nagar Nigam, Anunaya Jha said that after taking note of demands raised by the worker and his family, he was taken back on duty with a warning.
The matter came to light on Saturday after videos circulated on social media showed contractual sanitation worker Bobby, posted in the Generalganj area, carrying framed portraits of Modi and Adityanath in his wheel barrow.
Earlier, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Mathura-Vrindavan Nagar Nigam, Satyendra Kumar Tiwari had said Bobby was found lax in his work and his services were terminated.
The contractual worker had, however, maintained that he was only doing his job and that it was not his fault that the portraits were found in the garbage.
The videos showed some people accosting Bobby as he was going about his business, and asking him about the portraits in the barrow with garbage.
