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“The employees’ unions had recently moved the Madras high court regarding the issue and the case is pending with the court. The election commission should also stop the government from recruiting the gangmen until the elections are over." “The government has said even people who have passed just Class V could apply for the job. This is when the minimum eligibility to enrol oneself with the employment exchange is Class X? TIRUPUR: One of the employees’ unions of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board ( TNEB ) has petitioned the election commission to restrain the state government from appointing gangmen to the board until elections were over.“The state government has hurriedly issued an order just before the elections to recruit 5,000 gangmen to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco)..