Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: Employees of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) have extended their support to the Mazdoor-Kissan Sangarsh Rally held at Ram Leela Maidan in Delhi, today.
The Northern Zone Insurance Employees’ Association led the demonstration, which included protests across LIC offices in Jammu & Kashmir. The protesters aimed to express their dissent against the “anti-farmers” and “anti-workers” policies of the NDA Government.
Comrade Pawan Gupta, Divisional Secretary, and Comrade Fayaz Ah Gul, President, were among the demonstrators who participated in the protest.
At the DO Cell Jammu, Comrade Pawan Gupta highlighted the alleged deteriorating conditions of working people caused by the Government’s policies.
He discussed the negative impacts of declining wages, rising prices of essential commodities, unemployment, falling returns for farm produce, abysmal agricultural wages, and deepening agrarian distress.
According to him, the crisis is leading marginal families to severe poverty, and wage workers, farmers, and other toiling masses are committing suicides.
Additionally, he said, the privatization of basic entitlements such as education and healthcare has made them beyond the reach of common people.
Despite the crisis, he further said, the Government is cutting corporate taxes, selling public sector assets at throwaway prices, dismantling protective labor laws, writing off huge corporate loans, and inviting predatory foreign capital into strategic industries reserved for the public sector.
The demonstration also protested against the privatization of LIC, GIC, and banks, the new labor codes, the demand for MSP for farmers, the Old Pension scheme for all, the enhancement of family pension in LIC and GIC, and the control of price rise.
Comrade Fayaz Ahmad Gul led the proceedings in Srinagar. Meanwhile, similar rallies were held in other places including Sopore, Jammu, Doda, Poonch, Rajouri, Kathua, Samba, RS Pura, and Udhampur.
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