Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers, trade unions to protest against Centre from July 25

Jaipur: The All India Kisan Sabha, CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Unions) and All India Khet Mazdoor Union on Monday jointly decided to run a statewide mass campaign from July 25 to August 8 to create awareness among people about farmers’ protest against three farm laws, inflation, unemployment and new labour codes introduced by the Centre. The meeting was attended by national joint secretary of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Biju Krishnan, national vice-president of AIKS Amra Ram and national secretary of CITU J S Majumdar.“We will run a public awareness campaign in every village and in tehsils and towns of the state against the anti-people measures taken by the Central government. These include three farm laws passed by the Centre, unemployment, inflation and the new labour codes,” said Amra Ram. “They are also heading towards privatizing 41 defence factories, banks, airports, railways etc in the country and curb the voices raised by the unions,” he said. “We will also organise meetings in the districts to plan how to run the campaign in the villages, towns and tehsils,” he added. “They (BJP government) had promised 2 crore jobs a year. However, crores of people have lost jobs due to demonetisation, flawed GST, unprepared lockdown and mismanagement during the second wave of Covid pandemic,” he added.tnn

The Times of India

2021-07-13

Jaipur