Hyderabad, March 15 : Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana t President Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday welcomed the statement of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on taking field assistants back into the service. In a statement here, Sanjay described Rao’s announcement as a major victory for the BJP. “We have been fighting for quite some time in support of the field assistants on various forums, demanding that they be taken back into duties,” he claimed. Kumar pointed out that even during his Praja Sangrama Yatra, he had raised his voice on behalf of the field assistants and brought to the notice of the government their demands and their plight after losing the jobs. He recalled that he had also written a letter to the Chief Minister in the past demanding that the jobs of the field assistants be restored. While appreciating KCR’s decision on field assistants, the BJP president requested the former that 12,000 vidya volunteers, 22,000 school scavengers, 1,700 staff nurses and all the contract and outsourcing employees who had been sacked over a period of time be taken back into service and render justice. VV CS1713