Thousands of workers and peasants participated in the protests held in more than five hundred places in all the districts of the State for passing anti peasant and anti-workers Bills in Parliament.
Jharkhand State Secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulated the farmers and workers of the Jharkhand for holding protests across the State on Friday against the most undemocratic and autocratic way of functioning of the BJP-ledCentral Government.
Addressing the protesters, at Albert Ekka Chowk of the State capital CPI State Secretary Prakash Viplav said that in utter display of its total contempt for Parliamentary democracy, the BJP Government passed the three Labour Bills — the Code on Industrial Relations, the Code on Social Security and the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions — in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha without the presence of members from Opposition party.
“Earlier the Opposition boycotted Parliament proceedings protesting against the illegal suspension of eight MPs for exercising their right to demand division on the Farm Bills, which were also declared passed amidst chaos. It is a shame that an elected Government in Parliamentary democracy shows such contempt for constitutional and democratic rights of not only common people but of the elected Members of Parliament as well,” Viplav said.
Other leaders of the left parties who addressed the gathering at Albert Ekka Chowk in the State capital exposed the BJP Government’s utter untruths about the labour codes benefiting the workers and its claims of taking the trade unions into confidence. The copies of the Agri bills were torn down by the angry protesters.
Viplav said the Farm Bills and the Labour Bills are nothing but brazen acts to push the working class into 19th century slavery like conditions, drive our small and medium farmers into the deadly grip of the corporate agribusinesses and convert our small farmer based agriculture into corporate agriculture. These along with the wholesale privatisation of the public sector sound the death knell to our self reliant economy and our toiling people. All these are meant to serve the corporate cronies, domestic and foreign, by this BJP Government, he added.
“Through their massive mobilisations despite the surging Covid cases, the working class has declared that they would not allow these disastrous policies to continue. They made it known that the toiling people will defy, resist and stop these anti people and anti national measures on the ground, come what may,” Viplav said.
While congratulating the farmers and Workers for their massive response to the call of the Coordination Committee of Kisan Organisation he exhorts them to continue the struggle on the ground.