Akhil Gogoi. (File photo)
GUWAHATI: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader Akhil Gogoi, who has been in jail since last December for alleged Maoist links, may be released in the next few days, said the peasant organisation’s political wing, Raijor Dal’s, chief convener Bhasco De Saikia.
Saikia was hopeful that the judgment of the Gauhati High Court will be in their favour and Akhil will be granted bail. This comes at a time when Raijor Dal, one of the newest regional parties to be born out of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act movement, is going to organize its first state convention at Moran in upper Assam between January 7 and 9 that will decide whether it will ally with Aasu-backed Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP). “We hope that the people of Assam will get the good news that Akhil Gogoi is coming out of jail very soon and he will be able to join us in the first state convention,” Saikia added
Worker, employer bodies seek changes to draft labour rules
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The codification of laws on wages, social security, occupational safety and industrial relations into four codes is expected to be implemented in the next financial year.
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Several unions boycott the consultations terming them a ‘farce’
The majority of the Central trade unions on Thursday boycotted the Labour and Employment Ministry’s consultation on the draft rules for the four labour codes enacted by the government in 2019 and 2020, terming the exercise a “farce”.
The Indian farmers’ agitation and the socialist strategy of the working class
The more than 3-week-long agitation mounted by hundreds of thousands of farmers on the outskirts of Delhi has highlighted and intensified the popular opposition of India’s workers and toilers to Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Rushed through parliament in September in conjunction with a sweeping attack on workers’ rights, the Modi government’s pro-agribusiness farm laws will put tens of millions of small and marginal farmers at the mercy of domestic and international agribusiness.
In keeping with the antidemocratic character of its agrarian “reform,” the BJP government responded to the launching of the farmers’ Delhi
Senior Congress leader and former state minister K.N. Tripathy was on Thursday elected national president of Indian National Trade Union Congress (Intuc) at its annual general meeting held in the presence of several leaders in Ranchi.
Speaking to reporters after the formal announcement, Tripathy said Intuc, the trade union wing of the Congress founded in May 1947, would continue to fight against the anti-labour policies of the Union government.
“The country is passing through a difficult phase at the moment whereas farmers, labourers, and marginalised are forced to take to streets to safeguard their livelihood and rights because of wrong policies of the Union government. Intuc as a national body of a large workforce in the country will be at the forefront of this fight for the cause of our people,” he said.
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Farmers of Panipat district, Haryana, after successfully opening the gates of Panipat toll plaza, one of many motorway tolls throughout the country opened by farmers
SUPPORT has been pouring in for protesting farmers, who are camping on the Indian national capital’s borders demanding repeal of three new farm laws.
On Monday, trade unions and civil society groups held a solidarity march in Delhi’s ITO area, pledging solidarity with the agitating farmers.
The march was attended by members of key central unions, including the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AITUC) among others.