Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh to hold sector wise demonstrations against govt’s policy decisions

Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 24

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RSS affiliate Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) is observing a nationwide “Sarkar Jagao Saptah” from Friday to highlight the problems of the workforce at the national, state, industry and local level and “unbridled privatisation by selling PSUs and corporatisation of defence and railway production units” by the government.

From today, the ruling BJP’s sister organisation in the Sangh parivar will hold sector-wise demonstrations at state capitals, district headquarters, tehsil/block centres and also in all big industrial estates.

The decision was taken at a virtual meeting of national office bearers on July 7 presided over by BMS president CK Saji Narayanan and convened by general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay.

The national office bearers assessed that three-day coal strike had affected 95% activities in the sector and congratulated entire coal workers and coal federations for making it a grand success and creating a new hope among workers.

BMS strongly feels that the success of coal strike will have an outstanding impact on the entire public sector and government sector employees, said Narayanan.

We are committed to making it a mass movement, Upadhyay added.

“Our activists have contacted parliamentarians belonging to different parties and requested them to raise their voice in favour of labour in both Houses. BMS received very good responses from them,” said Narayanan and Upadhyay.

BMS has identified five major burning issues, problems of unorganised sector workers particularly migrant workers, non-payment of wages, huge job losses, suspension of labour laws and increasing working hours in many states and unbridled privatization by selling PSUs and also through corporatisation of defence and railway production units.

Each industry-level federation and state units will highlight the problems related to their respective fields, BMS leaders said.

As a part of “Sarkar Jagao Saptah”, BMS activists will contact grassroots level workers/employees of each sector and educate them about the Central as well as state governments’ latest policies and their severe impact on labour.

It will also expose the anti-worker ordinances brought by four state governments and increasing of working hours from 8 to 12 hours by 12 state governments.

Each day workers belonging to one particular sector will conduct processions and street corner meeting /public meeting /hall meeting as per the local situations by following all the COVID-19 norms.