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.”
CPI (M) Polit Bureau member B.V. Raghavulu said, “It is imperative to defeat the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections to save democracy and free the country from the clutches of the dictatorial, divisive and pro-corporate regime.”
Earlier in the day, a rally was taken out by the CITU cadre from the 1,000-pillar temple to the Public Gardens here.
