Hyderabad: The Telangana govt Joint Employees Action Committee (TGEJAC) meeting on Tuesday unanimously decided to temporarily postpone their lunch hour demonstrations and other agitation programmes scheduled to start from May 15 in view of the ongoing talks with the three-member IAS officers’ committee headed by senior bureaucrat Navin Mittal.The JAC is likely to meet the Mittal-led panel and also deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka-led cabinet sub-committee in the next 10 days. The JAC’s agitation plans will be announced after these meetings depending upon the response of the govt to their demands.However, the JAC clarified that its agitation programme on June 9, including a huge rally and public meeting, has not been postponed, and a decision will be taken after talks with the govt committees.The JAC meeting also unanimously adopted a resolution to express solidarity with the armed forces in their war against terrorism and said, “Protection of the country first, rights of the employees later.”Though the JAC thanked chief minister A Revanth Reddy for responding to their strike call and constituting a committee of IAS officers, it made it clear that delaying tactics by the govt to implement employees’ rightful demands will not be tolerated for long. It said that the incumbent govt first constituted a committee led by G Chinna Reddy, then a Bhatti Vikramarka-led cabinet sub-committee, and recently a Navin Mittal-headed committee. At least this time the JAC wants implementation of demands that do not impose a financial burden, said JAC secretary general Eluri Sreenivasa Rao.The JAC meeting was of the unanimous opinion that the govt’s stand that employees were exerting pressure for implementation of demands when the state was in a financial crisis had the potential to project them in poor light. It was decided to launch campaigns to make the JAC stand clear that what the employees were seeking was part of their salary component or their savings or their rights such as DAs, PRC, and reimbursement of medical and other bills.”The CM understands our problems, and we extend full cooperation to him. But the peshis of some of the ministers and senior IAS officers are not cooperating. They are making the JAC leaders wait for hours together to meet them, and later meeting them only for a few minutes. This should change for better coordination, and a patient hearing should be given to JAC leaders’ representations,” a senior JAC leader said.The JAC also wanted that general transfers be carried out by the end of May, and those transferred before elections be sent to their own districts immediately.