Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary Tapan Sen has called upon people to make success the nationwide industrial/sectoral strike and rural bandh called by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha on February 16 against the “anti-worker”, “anti-farmer” and “anti-people” policies of the BJP-led Central government.
The BJP’s nine-and-a-half-year rule was fraught with communal polarisation politics, brazen onslaught on constitutional provisions and pro-corporate policies, he alleged, while addressing a public meeting held here on Wednesday. The public meeting was organised as a prelude to the three-day CITU all-India working committee meeting slated to be held here from February 1 to 3.
He slammed the BJP dispensation at the Centre, accusing it of undermining the rights of the working class and posing a grave danger to India’s Parliamentary democracy. The country is grappling with rising inflation, unabated price rise and unemployment under the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, he charged. He said, “The BJP should be ousted from power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to safeguard the hard-won rights of the working class, the Constitution and democratic values.”
