* Syal appointed INTUC vice president
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 16: JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla today alleged that BJP Government is trying to finish Labour movement in the country and enacting laws which benefit to the big Industrial houses.
Addressing party workers in a meeting organized by Shiv Kumar Sharma, president Indian National Trade Union Congress Jammu & Kashmir, Bhalla criticized the NDA Government for its “anti-human” and “anti-labour” policies and demanded that the Government must immediately withdraw anti-labour rules.
He said INTUC should focus on Labour issues and project their problems and take up with the concerned authorities. He said BJP Government has been enacting laws to benefit employers and ending the existence of the labour movement.
Bhalla further said that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru took several welfare steps after Independence and the Congress made the country powerful with the help of workers, whereas BJP led Union Government was working to finish off these gains.
“The Modi Government has ended the Labour movement by bringing in employer-specific laws. It even brought three black laws to alienate farmers but the agitation by Congress forced the Centre to scrap these legislations,” Bhalla added.
On the occasion, INTUC chief, Shiv Kumar Sharma appointed Shashi Syal as vice president J&K INTUC, in presence of JKPCC working president.
Congratulating Syal on being appointed as vice president J&K INTUC, Bhalla said INTUC office bearers to help unorganised workers in achieving decent employment and fair pay for a perfect purchasing power for the rural, agricultural and gig workers.
Shiv Kumar Sharma claimed that laws that gave various rights and privileges to workers have been changed by bringing in legislations that serve the interest of employers and enslaves workers. Important projects of the country are being given to a few industrialists who are friendly to the Centre,” Sharma alleged.
He said the Modi Government’s promises to give two crore jobs per year, Rs 15 lakh in the bank accounts of people as well as doubling of farm income, riding on which the BJP came to power in 2014 and 2019, remain just a joke.
Sharma said workers are facing widespread economic hardship as a result of job losses, plummeting incomes, skyrocketing food and fuel prices, and chronic unemployment, all of which only aggravated under BJP rule. There is intense discontent against the Modi Government.
Prominent among those present on the occasion include Block president Suriender Singh Dutt, Satpal Sapolia, Mohd Ashraf , Ghulam Hassan, Sunil Kumar, Yashpal, Bana Ram, Vishal Singh, Sunil Sehgal, Kamla Devi and others.
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