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Trade unions support farmers agitation, saying Bharat Bandh on Dec 8 successful
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Last Updated: Dec 11, 2020, 05:19 PM IST
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Synopsis The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions reiterate rock-like solidarity with the Farmers United Struggle. After the successful Bharat Bandh on 8th December called by the Farmers jointly, the Central Government cannot call this a Punjab question any more, a statement by joint forum said.
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New Delhi: A joint platform of central trade unions on Friday reiterated its support to the farmers agitation, saying that the Bharat Bandh call by them on December 8 was successful. Despite the bandh call, the unions had not gone on strike on December 8 and they lent their moral support to the farmers agitation against three new farm bills.
Farmers protesting against farm laws have found support from trade unions (AFP, file photo)
NEW DELHI: A joint platform of central trade unions on Friday reiterated its support to the farmers agitation, saying that the Bharat Bandh call by them on December 8 was successful.
Despite the bandh call, the unions had not gone on strike on December 8 and they lent their moral support to the farmers agitation against three new farm bills.
The ten central trade unions are Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Trade Union Co-ordination Centre (TUCC), Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA), All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), Labour Progressive Federation (LPF) and United Trade Union Congress (UTUC).
As Indian farmers step up protests against pro-agribusiness “reform,” Modi prepares mass repression
Indian farmers are threatening to expand their protests after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government reiterated that it will not repeal the three pro-agri-business laws it rushed through parliament last September.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, many with their wives and children, are currently camped at four entrances to the Delhi National Capital Territory. Many have been there since Nov. 27, when phalanxes of security forces, acting on the orders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP government, barred them from bringing their Delhi
Chalo (Let’s go to Delhi) agitation to India’s capital and largest city.