MAHA DHARNA -- LAST DAY
A SECTION OF PARTICIPANTS
The thousands of workers who stormed
the national capital and assembled at Parliament Street in the national capital
Delhi, to participate in the first day of the three days ‘mahapadav’ on 9th November
2017 enthusiastically endorsed the call of the speakers to intensify the
struggle against the anti worker, anti people and anti national policies of the
BJP led government and prepare for a countrywide indefinite general strike if
the government fails to concede their demands.
Workers from all over the country representing many sector - public and
private, permanent employees and contract, casual workers, state and central
government employees, banks, insurance, telecom, railways, defence, and the
various schemes of the government of India participated in the ‘mahapadav’ on
the first day.
Ashok Singh (INTUC), Gurudas Dasgupta (AITUC), HS Sidhu (HMS), Tapan Sen
(CITU), Satyawan (AIUTUC), G Devarajan (TUCC), Manali (SEWA), Rajiv Dimri
(AICCTU), M Shanmugam (LPF) and Ashok Ghosh (UTUC) addressed the gathering in
the first session presided over by Sanjay Singh (INTUC), Ramendra Kumar
(AITUC), Raja Sridhar (HMS), Hemalata (CITU), RK Sharma (AIUTUC), Naren
Chatterjee (TUCC), Sonia (SEWA), Santosh Rai (AICCTU), Subbaraman (LPF) and
Shatrujit Singh (UTUC).
Leaders of the federations spoke in the second part of the first session. It
was most significant that the leaders of the two major national federations of
the railway employees - Shiv Gopal Mishra, general secretary of All India
Railwaysmen’s Federation and Raghavaiagh, general secretary of National
Federation of Indian Railwaymen - have announced that they would join the
indefinite strike whenever the joint trade union platform gave the call.
Leaders of several other all Industrial federations including Venkatachalam,
general secretary of All India Bank Employees’ Association, Subhash Lamba,
additional general secretary of All India State Government Employees’
Association and secretary of Electricity Employees’ Federation of India, KK
Divakaran, general secretary of All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation, C
Sreekumar, general secretary of All India Defence Employees’ Federation,
Jagdeesh Sreemali, VS Dahiya, GR Shiv Shankar, Ravi Sen, Peelimuthu, Kalyan
Sengupta, also joined them in endorsing the call addressed the huge gathering
and announced they would join the indefinite country wide general strike
whenever the joint trade union platform took the decision. Thampan Thomas
(HMS), Vijay Pal Singh (AIUTUC), Anil Sharma (TUCC), Sonia (SEWA), Mahendra
Parida (AICCTU), Natarajan (LPF) and Thomas Joseph (UTUC) also addressed
H Mahadevan (AITUC), Raghunath Singh (CITU) Shyamlal (AICCTU), Bashir Abud
(LPF) replaced their colleagues in the presidium in the second part of the
first session. The second session was presided over by Gurnam Singh (INTUC), C
Singh (AITUC), SN Pathak (HMS), Anadi Sahu (CITU), Shiv Shankar (UTUC), Lataben
(SEWA), Shyamal Prasad (AICCTU), Basheer Ahmed (LPF) and PG Prasanna Kumar
(UTUC)
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