| LIC employees support Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh rally, oppose anti farmers, anti workers policies | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 5: LIC employees under the banner of Northern Zone Insurance Employees' Association led by Divisional Secretary, Comrade Pawan Gupta and President- Com. Fayaz Ah Gul held massive demonstrations across LIC offices of Jammu & Kashmir in support of Mazdoor-Kisan Sangharsh Rally being held at Ram Leela Maidan Delhi today. Speaking on the occasion at D.O.Cell Jammu, Com. Pawan Gupta said that the condition of the working people has deteriorated to an unprecedented level due to the notorious economic onslaught unleashed by the current government. Declining wages, rising prices of essential commodities, raging unemployment, falling returns for farm produce, abysmal agricultural wages, ever deepening agrarian distress resulting in precarious migration of millions, and floundering welfare schemes systematically curtailed by the government, are pushing marginal families into severe poverty. The distress caused by the economic crisis is leading to suicides by thousands of wage workers, farmers and other sections of the toiling masses. Meanwhile, basic entitlements like education and healthcare are being increasingly privatised, pushing them beyond the reach of common people. What is equally shocking is the government's refusal to address this crisis engulfing almost all sections of the people. In fact the government is blindly pushing ahead with its discredited policy of providing gifts to the corporates by cutting corporate taxes, selling off public sector assets at throwaway prices, dismantling protective labour laws, writing off huge corporate loans, and inviting predatory foreign capital into the country's key and strategic industries hitherto reserved for the public sector. Corruption has seeped into every sphere of social life. In order to divert attention from these policies, toxic hate campaigns have been launched threatening our basic social fabric. We firmly believe that this historic march to Delhi by the workers, peasants and agricultural workers, raising the basic issues and demands of all sections of the people, on 5 April 2023 will further advance the people's resistance and give notice to this government that its anti-people policies will no longer be tolerated. The demonstration also raised its voice against privatisation of LIC, GIC and Banks, against the new labour codes, to demand MSP to farmers, as per Dr. Swami Nathan's report, to demand Old Pension scheme for all, to demand enhancement in family pension in LIC and GIC, to control the price rise, etc. Others who spoke- Rajesh Gupta- Joint Secretary, Dinesh Kumar Sharma- Vice President, Rajesh Kumar-Treasurer, Raj Kumar, Dharminder Kumar, Kishore Lal, Priya Sharma, and others. Programme in Srinagar was led by President com. Fayaz Ahmad Gul, Jt. Sec. Syed Aadil Imam, Vice President Amarjeet Singh, Treasurer Ajaz Ahmad Dar, Com. Javed Ahmad Bukhari, Gulshan Singh he programme was organised at Sopore by S.D. PEER, Srinagar-1 by Nadeem, Srinagar-2 by Irfan Javed Baba, Srinagar-3 by Gh. Nabi Mir, Pulwama by Stanzin Sherap, and Anantnag by Shakoor Ah. Dar, Jammu-2 by R.P. Singh, Doda by Ram Raj, Poonch by Raj Kumar, Rajouri by Vikas Sharma and Vinod Sharma, Kathua by Vijay Verma and Mohan Lal, Samba by Surat Singh, R.S. Pura by Jagdish, Udhampur by Moti Ram. |
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