Kerala’s Stalinist-led state government has given its consent to the Modi government deploying heavily-armed Central Reserve Police Force personnel at the construction site in order to intimidate and, if necessary, violently suppress any further protests against the port project.
The Modi government and military view the recruitment scheme as critical to freeing up funds to acquire new weapons systems and aggressively pursue India’s great-power ambitions, including against its principal rivals China and Pakistan.
The Stalinist CITU played the central role in forcing the workers to end their action through its abandonment and isolation of the sanitation workers’ determined struggle.