Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) would, as part of its 129th International Workers’ Day celebrations observed in May 2015, as the anti-Modi month to register its protest against the anti-labour and pro-corporate policies of Union Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing a media conference at Reporters’ Guild here on Tuesday, CITU district secretary, Sheksha Khadri said that a month-long celebration would focus on and expose the Union Government’s anti-labour polices, particularly its efforts either to weaken or to scrap the hard-earned labour laws that hitherto safeguarded workers’ interests.
The effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Government would be burnt at district and all taluk headquarters on May 26, the day BJP-led government assumed power at the Centre in 2014, he added.
“After Narendra Modi assumed power as Prime Minister of India, the Union Government has decided to either scrap or weaken as many as 700 labour laws which were the results of prolonged and persistent workers’ struggles. The government has already repealed four major labour laws. The government is amending several labour Acts, including Industrial disputes act, 1947 and Trade Union Act, 1926, so as to make them corporate-friendly,” Mr. Khadri said.
Support to IIT in Raichur
Mr. Khadri said that CITU state committee had taken a decision to support the demand and struggles for establishing Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Raichur and instructed all district committees to not to demand the premier institute to their respective districts.
‘We will, from now on, actively participate in all the struggles demanding IIT for Raichur,” he said. He also extended his organisation’s support to the scheduled farmers’ agitation on Thursday.
CITU office bearers H. Padma, D.S. Sharanabasava, Yenkappa and others were present.