Today is the Constitution Day, certainly a quite historic day for the complete of India. On this day, citizens took to the streets to remind the Government of India of its constitutional duty and duty towards the citizens of this nation.
Farmers, agricultural laborers, fishermen, pastoralists, rural artisans, organized and unorganized sector workers / staff, ladies, and students participated across the nation and termed some of the government policies unconstitutional.
Martyrs Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamate, Vijay Salaskar, Tukaram Ombale and police, military soldiers and officers who sacrificed their lives though fighting the fanatical terrorists on November 26, 2008, have been saluted.
Earlier this year, on the 8th of January, 2020, all the workers’ organisations went on a a single-day nationwide strike to protest against the anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-nation policies of the Central Government. This was a warning to the central government. However, the central government ignored their protest.
Protesters say the central government has taken undue benefit of the wellness emergency crisis developed by COVID-19 and the pandemic and neglected the implementation of the current labor laws. They say devoid of bothering to have some consultation with trade unions, political parties and devoid of even discussing in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the central government brazenly passed 4 new anti-labour codes.
It has been alleged that the 3 laws passed by the government in September 2020 would push compact farmers into the net of significant corporates and legalize the black marketplace in meals grains.
During the unplanned and unprecedented lockdown, thousands of workers and compact organizations had been rendered jobless and devoid of revenue, which in the context of India also implies devoid of a roof more than their head and just about full starvation.
The have to have of the hour is to formulate policies to help workers at numerous levels and make attempts to strengthen the economy.
The central government’s `self-sufficiency’ (`atma-nirbharta’) campaign has been slammed saying it is ill-timed as on the other hand public sector organisations have been sold off.
Agitators have hit out at BJP’s policies saying they are myopic, brief-sighted and have left the country’s economy full a shambles.
The Reserve Bank has acknowledged that this is the starting of recession. It has also stated that the economy will not develop and the GDP will continue to shrink till the finish of subsequent year.
However, the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister have not uttered a word on this.
On the a single hand, the finance ministry says green shoots could be observed, but for the basic public, none exists, term the new packages that have been announced meaningless, say they see these as ‘Jumla’, theatrics, and mere bombastic measures.
Indians also witnessed crores of functioning people today starving, when they had been trudging 100s of miles devoid of meals or water. And, for the duration of the exact same time, there had been also reports of Mukesh Ambani’s assets rising from Rs 4.8 lakh crore to Rs 6.5 lakh crore.
There is robust criticism that the poor and prevalent man is getting exploited by the central government, and significant corporates are obtaining richer.
Many state governments have also questioned the central government saying it is taking unilateral choices devoid of even consulting them.
For instance, according to the GST Act 2017, following collecting the total GST tax, the share of the state has to be offered by the Central Government to the respective states.
According to reports, the central government owes a total of Rs 3 lakh crore to all state governments.
The Mahavikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra has hit out at the Centre saying it is attempting to destabilise their government, and misusing and abusing the distinct agencies controlled by them like ED, CBI, and so forth.
All these actions had been strongly opposed by the functioning class and the peasantry.
On this a single-day strike on the Constitution Day nowadays, farmers’ organizations across the nation nowadays have referred to as for Chalo Delli’ (‘March to Delhi’) as effectively as street protests across the nation.
On November 27, farmers’ unions across the nation continue their agitation and trade unions actively help it.
All staff in Banks Insurance and whole PSU, central and state govt staff observed strike nowadays. All unions in every single sector will be on strike in every single sector.
The strike and agitation has referred to as for the following demands:
1) Withdraw the anti-labor code right away and restore all preceding labor laws.
2) Repeal 3 anti-farmer laws right away. Legislate for full debt relief for farmers and a minimum standard price tag of a single and a half occasions the price of production as per the Swaminathan Commission formula.
3) Withdraw the Central Government’s proposed and amended Electricity Bill 2020 right away.
4) Pay Rs 7500 month-to-month subsistence allowance to all these who are not capable to spend Income Tax.
5) Give 10 kg of no cost grain per head for the subsequent six months.
6) Stop privatization of railways, BPCL, ports, coal and defense sectors, airports, banks, insurance coverage providers.
7) Strictly enforce the Forest Rights Act and give legal titles to these who are tilling forest land.
8) Contract workers who are in common operate have to be produced permanent.
9) Pay equal spend for equal operate.
10) Cancel the new pension program. Amend the 1995 EPF scheme and improve the minimum pension to Rs. 10000.
11) Regularize Asha, Anganwadi and so forth. scheme staff and give them the advantage of minimum wages, provident fund and pension.
12) Expand the MNREGA, whereby every single individual is entitled to at least 200 days of operate in a year with Rs. 600 wages per day.
13) Implement Employment Guarantee Act in cities.
14) Strengthen the public distribution (ration) program. Strengthen the Food Corporation of India.
15) Build high quality public hospitals in every single taluka by strengthening public wellness program.
16) Strengthen public transport program with government subsidy. Best and S.T. Protect the corporation. Make it element of the primary price range of the Government of Maharashtra. Merge Very best in the primary price range of Mumbai Municipal Corporation.
17) Register all kinds of unorganized workers supply them with wellness insurance coverage and a month-to-month pension of Rs. 3000 / -. For this, legislate a extensive law on the lines of Mathadi Act.
18) Implement the national policy for vendors.
19) Strengthen and implement the Inter-State Migrant Workers Act of 1979.
20) Pass a separate law for intra-state migrant workers.
21) Cancel the new education policy. Implement a high quality public education program with the recognition that education as the proper of every single youngster.
22) Stop attacks on secularism, equality and federalism (the rights of state governments), which are the values that are at the core of out Constitution.
23) Immediately disburse to the Maharashtra State Government its share of GST.
24) Adequate provision need to be produced for social safety solutions for all workers.
25) Social infrastructure as effectively as the legal program need to be strengthened in order to supply all social solutions to the people today of India.
26) There need to be no choice to spend money for any social solutions.
All the Constitution-loving citizens want to go beyond language, area, religion, caste and gender and the government’s divisive, anti-democratic and anti-Constitutional measures.
Protesters have taken pledge to not enable the unity of the nation be undermined, and strengthen the Constitutional values of secularism, equality, socialism and democracy.