Mumbai, Jan 21: Employees of the Khadi Village Industries Commissioner (KVIC) have threatened the Government with an indefinite strikes demanding corruption free environment along with featuring Mahatma Gandhi on their yearly calenders and dairies. 

The Shiv Sena-led Khadi Gramodyog Karmachari Sena (KGKS) employees union have a taken a stand against the KVIC management's attempt to penalize the workers who took part in a silent lunch-hour demonstration on January 12.
 
The employees were protesting the decision of KVIC to replace Gandhi's photos with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's on the 2017 wall calendar and table diaries which eventually sparked a nation wide protest. The PMO though later stated that their consent had not been taken before the pictures of the Pm got published on the calender. 
 
Earlier this week, KGKS President and MP Anandrao Adsul said he has already asked the KVIC management to desist from punishing the employees who had staged a peaceful, Gandhian form of protest.He also asked whether the KVIC had taken official permission from the PMO to dump Gandhi's pictures and replace them with Modi's.
 
After certain media reports claiming the PMO had distanced itself from the Khadi fracas, the KVIC struck back at the employees and served a showcause notice to KGKS on January 16 asking whether it had taken aceprior written permission" to stage the silent protest on its premises. 
 
"The show-cause notice tantamounts to a dictatorial attitude of the management in a democratic country," Adsul told IANS that evening, warning KVIC of an all-India strike.