Rahul Gandhi Connects With Parents Of EY Pune Employee; Promises Them To Fight For Working Professionals
EY Pune Employee: Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday had a conversation with the parents of Anna Sebastian Perayil who is said to have died of extreme pressure of work at Ernst & Young. He assured them that he would continue to fight for reforms to alleviate the agony faced by millions of professionals in India.
LoP @rahulgandhi spoke to the parents of Anna Sebastian via video call organised by @pravchak during his vist to their home in Kochi.
He assured them of personal & the Congress party's full support and advised @pravchak to raise this issue for all working professionals.… pic.twitter.com/L2fMAFARvb
— AIPC (@ProfCong) September 21, 2024
Rahul Gandhi spoke to Anna Sebastian's parents over video call. Courtesy of the visit made to their Kochi home by Praveen Chakravarty, Chairman of the All India Professionals' Congress. Rahul Gandhi expressed his condolences over the video call and praised the determination shown by the family at this difficult moment to raise the issue of improving work conditions for millions of professionals in the country.
#WATCH | Kochi | Union Minister Suresh Gopi today met the family of a Pune EY employee who died allegedly due to 'overwork'
He says, "...I have talked to Anna's family. From all the information I could gather, I think there is something. Post-death participation by responsible… pic.twitter.com/sCTWPlXEbL
— ANI (@ANI) September 21, 2024
Rahul Gandhi Assured To Fight For Working Professionals
Rahul Gandhi assured the family that he would take this cause forward as Leader of the Opposition and asked the AIPC Chairman to start an awareness movement, in memory of Anna, for working professionals in every state of India.
This would soon be supplemented by AIPC declaring a helpline to gather information from corporate professionals about work stress and toxic work culture. And thereafter, AIPC will proceed towards working on draft guidelines to implement better working conditions for professionals in the corporate sector, it added.
Last night, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shared on X that he had a very emotional conversation with Sibi Joseph, the father of Anna Sebastian.
Had a deeply emotional and heartrending conversation with Shri Sibi Joseph, the father of young Anna Sebastian, who passed away after a cardiac arrest, following four months of deeply stressful seven-day weeks of 14 hours a day at Ernst&Young. He suggested, and I agreed, that I…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 20, 2024
Anna died from cardiac arrest after toiling away for four months at Ernst & Young, working seven days a week, 14 hours a day.
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