Bhilai Steel Plant workers burn copies of labor and agriculture laws, demonstrate

January 14 2021

Three agricultural laws and four labor code copies were burnt and torn by Bhilai Steel Plant employees on Wednesday morning. The Left and their associated labor organizations expressed anger against the government. Shouted anti-government slogans. Employees demonstrated at the Murga Chowk in the main entrance of the plant with flags and placards in hand. Supported the peasant movement.

Expressed anger at the cuts being made in the workers officials. Venkat, Yogesh Soni, Jamil Ahmed from CPM, Vinod Kumar Soni from CIP, Basant Uike, Shyam Lal Sahu from CPIML, A.K. Shekhar Rao, Shiv Kumar Prasad expressed their views on the issue of workers and farmers. Shyam Lal Sahu, general secretary of the Center of Steel Workers Actu, said that the government is giving concrete shape to the conspiracy to enslave workers.

Rules and legislation are being changed to entrust corporate houses to government companies. Similarly, farmers are also being harassed. That is why farmers have opened their front. This is a historical struggle of the farmers as well as a historic occasion. When the Indian working class has to go shoulder to shoulder with farmers in this war.

Here, CPI-ML state secretary Brijendra Tiwari says that the Supreme Court has given a stay order on the three agricultural laws that farmers are demanding to be repealed. The Supreme Court did not say in its order whether the agricultural laws were constitutional or not, and therefore the Supreme Court s order of the adjournment of these laws does not seem to be trustworthy for the agitating farmers and the people of India.

The Supreme Court in its order itself has indicated that the original purpose of the stay order is political. Not legal or constitutional. As stated in the order, we cannot suppress peaceful protest, but this extraordinary order, given the moratorium on agricultural laws, will give farmers a sense of success in their cause. Farmers organizations, at least for now, will inspire their members to go back to everyday life.

Brijendra Tiwari said that the four members whose names have been given in the panel have already made public publicity in favor of these laws. It is clear that this panel stands in favor of the government to such an extent that it cannot be claimed to be fair.

 

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Source: Nai Dunia