Mandi: To launch a campaign against the Center, CITU produces a manifesto

Under the direction of CITU district president Bhupender Singh, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) convened a district-level convention yesterday when the organization unveiled its platform for the approaching Lok Sabha elections. At the conference were around 150 representatives from various unions, including those from the midday meal, anganwari, MGNREGA, construction workers, street sellers, and others.

The conference was opened by Kashmir Singh Thakur, national secretary of the CITU. “CITU has decided at the national level that it will raise questions about what the Central government led by Narendra Modi has done for the welfare of laborers in the past ten years during the Lok Sabha elections,” he said. In actuality, it has done away with forty-four labor rules designed to protect workers. The goal of all of this has been to boost business and capitalist profits.

He said, “Jobs have been lost and the public sector is being sold, despite Narendra Modi’s pledge to give youth jobs.” Under the guise of the Agniveer initiative, the young are being duped. Opponents are suppressed by autonomous institutions. Because of their abuse of the ED and CBI, elected chief ministers have remained behind bars. While unemployment and inflation are rising, the public’s focus is being drawn away from the true problems.

“CITU will run a public awareness campaign for the purpose of making voters aware of the failures of the Modi government in the past ten years,” he said.

Prem Gautam, the state general secretary, said that the CITU had drafted a platform for Asha workers and that the Central Government had not raised the pay of MGNREGA, midday meal, or Asha workers.

According to Bhupender, block committee meetings for every union would continue until April 30. Public awareness efforts will begin in every village on May 1. On May 1, awareness campaigns will be held in Mandi, Jogindernagar, Sarkaghat, and Balichowki. The last day of the public campaigns would be May 30, which is also CITU’s founding day.