• Lorry Association excesses In Mancherial, Telangana

Dear sir/madam,

I am writing this with deep pain with the kind of excesses committed by our local lorry owners association in mancherial, Telangana.

Lorry owners association prioritizes local lorries and they get 80% of share of all loads every day.

My father and my mother’s brother(uncle) purchased a lorry back in 2004 and were operating a lorry, which is driven and managed from then By my father and was part of mancherial lorry owners association.The lorry was registered on my Uncle name and he has membership for the same lorry in association from then.

In the early 2009 mancherial lorry association was split into two parts, one continued under old name and the other was named as coalbelt lorry owners association. Our family went along with coal belt lorry association. The 80% share was then shared between two associations based on number of owners with the respective association.

Days rolled by and changes happened in association and the current association leadership suddenly came down with the below condition which suspended members belonging to below criteria. They have chose members selectively:

1)There were some lorries registered on people from local area but their family members are making their living. Eg: lorry was registered on Mr.A who resides locally. But in reality the lorry belongs to a family member of Mr. A from another district.

The leadership of lorry association asked to prove that lorry belongs to Mr.A by doing below things :

1) show all relevant documentation that lorry belongs to Mr.A
2) Undertake a promise on god along with wife and children of Mr.A.
3) Two additional lorry owners from association also undertake a promise on god Along with their wife and kids that they know and believe the lorry belongs to Mr.A..
With this clause my family were not in favor of this illogical and inhumane way of dragging families.So we abstained from promise.We showed docs.

This way they suspended 22 lorries from association, though some of the lorries indeed really belongs to some one from local area but enjoyed by their relatives..I don’t see it as wrong as legally lorry belongs to someone local.

Coming to my case,
Every one in association knows the lorry belongs to my family And not my uncle individually. The lorry was existing from 15 years. 

Whatever these insensitive human beings did was to target us so that there won’t be any alternative leadership. My father who was making an earning was dragged in front of people as someone who committed crime from last 15 years..my father is also a local.

We want to teach them a lesson and 
1)get membership back
2)get compensation for stopping our lorry from three months and all the mental torture we faced.

To add, majority of lorry owners demanded to restore our priority as were there from 15 years. But association president and secretary did not want to keep us in association because of personal grudge.

What steps can we take to fix this?