TG set to expose AP over Krishna waters diversion
Uttam will also explain the disastrous decision by the previous BRS government to change the project's course from Tummidihatti to Medigadda, detailing its catastrophic consequences for the state's irrigation sector. Officials stated that the Irrigation Minister will present all details regarding the lifting of Krishna River water without seeking the approval of the Krishna River Management Board following the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The BRS's failure to protect Telangana's interests in the utilisation of Krishna water will be highlighted in the presentation.
The Minister will explain the technical issues stemming from the poor construction and management of the Sundilla, Annaram, and Medigadda barrages by the previous government. The state government has already stated that the Kaleshwaram project has plunged the state into a deep financial crisis.
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Trade union strike: Normal life remains unaffected; sporadic violence in WB
Normal life was not impacted in most parts of the country due to a nationwide strike called by the 10 central trade unions to protest against the labour policies of the Centre, though some sporadic incidents of violence were reported from West Bengal. However, the trade unions claimed that the strike was successful, and a large number of workers abstained from work, impacting postal, banking, insurance, and mining sectors. Reports of violence were received from pockets of West Bengal after Left-wing activists clashed with police and supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress in some districts. Left-leaning bank unions, All India Bank Employees Association, All India Bank Officers Association and Bank Employees Federation of India also supported the strike, leading to disruption in services in some parts of the country. However, there was no impact on private sector banks and many large public sector banks like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda. The All India Power Engineers Federation claimed that over 2.7 million power sector workers hit the road across the country to protest against privatisation. In a statement, a forum of the 10 central trade unions said there was a bandh-like situation in many states of the country. They include Puducherry, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Goa, Meghalaya, and Manipur. Reports of partial bandhs were also received from parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh, among others, the forum said. There were industrial and sectoral strikes held in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Gujarat, it added. Several political parties supported the strike call, including the Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and Communist Party of India. In Bengaluru, Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said the nationwide strike is aimed at opposing the Narendra Modi government's 'anti-worker and anti-farmer' policies, and its 'failures' to create jobs and fill existing vacancies. In Odisha, the Biju Shramik Samukhya, a trade union affiliated to the Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD), joined the protests. In Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha said that her party and Telangana Jagruti supported the strike as the BJP-led government at the Centre has eroded workers' rights. The trade unions have said that the central government is implementing reforms that weaken workers' rights. They called the one-day strike in support of their demand for doing away with the four labour codes along with contractualisation, privatisation of public sector undertakings and increasing minimum wages to ₹26,000 per month, among others. The forum had last year submitted a 17-point demand to Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. The government has not been conducting the annual labour conference for the last 10 years, the forum claimed. However, the Confederation of All India Traders, which BJP Lok Sabha member Praveen Khandelwal leads, said there was no impact of the strike on commercial activity in the national capital.
India Gazette
2 hours ago
- India Gazette
Bharat Bandh: Trade Unions accuse Centre of diluting worker rights; demand rollback of new labour codes
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Around 10 Central Trade Unions associated with left-aligned parties, representing over 25 crore Indian workers, along with INDIA bloc parties participated in the Bharat Bandh carried out across the country on Wednesday, demanding a roll back of the new labour codes, bringing back the Old Pension Scheme urging the Centre to ensure that labour rights are protected. Scores of people walked the streets across the country, carrying their trade union flags and slogans, and presented their demands through a 17-point charter. The trade unions have accused the Centre of diluting workers' rights, alleging that the central government is pushing economic reforms without considering the impact on workers. The Bharat Bandh, General Strike was earlier called on May 20, however trade unions decided to defer the call to July 9, keeping in mind the escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack on April 22 in Jammu and Kashmir, and India's decisive reply with Operation Sindoor launched on May 7, targeting terrorist bases in Pakistan. Workers across the country, including in Delhi, Odisha, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, presented their demands, with multiple political parties also voicing support for the strike. The protests saw varied responses from people from across the country. As Kerala saw multiple shops shut down, transport services affected, the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu saw bus services resume shortly after today. State-run buses in West Bengal saw their services affected today. Meanwhile, in Bihar, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) also attended a 'Bihar Bandh' rally, raising the issue of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being carried out in Bihar. Several senior leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc, including CPI General Secretary D Raja, CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, Bihar Congress President Rajesh Ram, Kanhaiya Kumar, and Sanjay Yadav, also participated in the protest. Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi alleged the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is trying to repeat 'voter theft' in Bihar, just like in the Maharashtra assembly elections. 'The way there was vote theft in the Maharashtra elections, a similar attempt is being made in Bihar,' the Congress leader said. Gandhi also raised questions over the rise in voter numbers between the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Maharashtra, alleging that all newly added votes went to the BJP. He claimed that the INDIA alliance's poor performance in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, despite a Lok Sabha majority, prompted a deeper data review that revealed suspicious voting patterns. Notably, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, also present at the rally, criticised the Election Commission of India for its decision to revise electoral rolls, calling it a 'Godi Aayog.' Yadav accused the NDA alliance of using the Election Commission of India to remove the name of 'Bihar's poor people' from the voter list. Congress workers, while participating in the bandh, lay down on the road to block vehicles in Patna. In West Bengal, clashes erupted during the Bharat Bandh rally. In the Naxalbari area, Trinamool Congress (TMC) and trade union leaders clashed with each other. Meanwhile, in Kolkata, the Police removed protesters from the street to allow a bus to pass through. On Bharat Bandh, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh said, 'Where was Bharat closed, Bengal was fully operational. Public life was fully normal... There was traffic on the roads... If 10-12 people try to block the road, then what will the police do? They tried to remove them normally...' In Odisha's Bhubaneswar, the ten central trade unions were joined by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)'s trade wing, 'Biju Shramik Samukhya,' protesting weakened workers' rights. BJD leader Prafulla Samal, while participating in the rally, told ANI, 'The labour organisation of BJD not only supports the protest but has also done the work to make this protest successful... The government at the centre and state is against the workers... The govt has not done anything for the workers... Now they have converted the 44-level law of labour into the four labour codes, which only benefits the owners.' Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader said that this is the 32nd general strike in the history of independent India. 'This will be another historical strike since the last 32 years of the new liberal policy, and it is the 23rd general strike of India... The BJP government has converted four labour codes out of 29 labour laws in the name of ease of doing business. The minimum wage for all categories of workers must be Rs 26,000 per month. For MANREGA, we demand that there should be 200 working days and Rs 600 wage per working day,' the CPI(M) leader said. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala highlighted in Karnataka how over 25 crore protesting workers are carrying out the Bharat Bhand due to the unavailability of jobs in the country. 'Over 25 crore workers and farmer unions are participating (in Bharat Bandh). Bharat Bandh because BJP's new translation is B for 'Band Karo', J for 'Jobs Chheeno' and P for 'Phasad Karvao'... The principal issue is there are no jobs for the young in the country - 30 lakh jobs are vacant, but the government refuses to fill them... The unemployment rate has crossed 30% and at a 45-year high... Budget of MNREGA has stagnated,' Surjewala said in Bengaluru. While in Jharkhand's Ranchi, Congress's Rajesh Thakur said, 'Now people have no work to do, people are now spreading rumours in panic because of how successful the Bharat Bandh yatra was. There is nothing special about who climbed the truck and who did not. It is clear that when we go out for the public interest, then we don't see whose stage it is... BJP workers keep spreading such types of rumours.' On March 18, 2025, before the Trade Unions decided to defer the strike to July 9, the National Convention of Workers, organised by the Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations and Associations, adopted a Declaration with a call for a two-month-long campaign to culminate in a Nationwide General Strike on 20th May 2025. The event, organised at Delhi's Pyare Lal Bhawan, had representatives from multiple Central Trade Unions across states, looking to 'resist against the anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-people policies of the BJP government,' according to a statement from the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). 'Voices rose in unison, in a chorus of condemnation against the central government that deliberately maintains more than a decade long deaf ear to the consistent demands of the Trade Unions on the one side and their collective rejection of its policies on the other,' the statement added. 'The convention sent out a scathing attack on the brazenly pro-corporate policies in favour of the crony capitalists, creation of monopoly and duopoly capitalists that are detrimental to the working people and overall economic well-being of the country,' the statement read on March 18. The Central Government in 2020 codified 29 laws into 4 Codes. The centre said the aim is to ensure workers receive security, along with respect, health, and other welfare measures, with ease. The new labour codes include the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. A total of 10 CTU's, 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 (AIUTUC), Trade Union Coordination Centre (TUCC), Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), Labour Progressive Federation (LPF), and the United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) participated in the Bharat Bandh. However, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) did not participate. (ANI)
India Gazette
2 hours ago
- India Gazette
Eviction drive against illegal encroachments will continue: Assam BJP
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 9 (ANI): The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday reiterated its support for the state government's ongoing eviction drive to remove what it termed as illegal encroachments on government and forest land, asserting that the campaign will continue in the coming days. In a statement issued by BJP Assam spokesperson Pankaj Borbora, the party alleged that a large portion of protected land and forest areas had been occupied by 'illegal infiltrators of East Bengal origin,' posing a threat to the rights and future of the indigenous Assamese population. Borbora said, 'Encroachment by illegal infiltrators on government-protected lands and forest areas in Assam has become a grave threat to the indigenous people of the state. These lands, particularly in sensitive regions, have been overtaken largely by infiltrators of East Bengal origin. However, under the leadership of Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Assam Government has launched a robust eviction drive rooted in legal processes, an initiative fully supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party.' Borbora stated that the previous Congress governments, for the sake of vote-bank politics, settled East Bengali-origin infiltrators on protected lands and indulged in appeasement. 'In contrast, the BJP is committed to safeguarding the rights and future of the indigenous Assamese people. Just yesterday, during a massive eviction drive over 3,500 bighas of land in Dhubri's Chapar, Akhil Gogoi was seen provoking evicted individuals and confronting the administration. His actions once again exposed his bias toward Bangladeshi infiltrators. Gogoi and the Congress party, in their attempt to woo the Muslim vote bank, have stood against legal eviction drives, revealing their anti-indigenous sentiments,' said the press statement. The statement further added that threats to Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma's life and violent outbursts during the eviction are the result of incitement by Akhil Gogoi and the Congress's appeasement policies. 'The attacks on the police and administration by illegal settlers pose a future security threat to the indigenous population. But such threats will not deter the government. The eviction drive will not only continue but also intensify in the coming days. On 10th July, another eviction drive is scheduled in the Paikan forest area of Goalpara,' said the press statement. The press statement also pointed out that most of these lands were encroached upon during the Congress regime by people of East Bengali origin. It is the BJP's unwavering goal to make Assam encroachment-free and to reclaim the land from Bangladeshi infiltration. He said, 'This government action is being conducted fully in accordance with the directives of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and follows all legal and constitutional procedures. While the Congress now sheds crocodile tears in the name of indigenous people, they were the very ones who never recognised the pain of the khilonjiya (indigenous) communities and instead settled infiltrators on protected government land. The aggression of East Bengali-origin infiltrators has endangered Assam's language, culture, and demographic structure.' Referring to a recent eviction operation in Chapar area of Dhubri, the statement accused Raijor Dal MLA Akhil Gogoi of attempting to provoke those being evicted and of confronting administrative officials during the drive. 'The Congress and left-liberal groups, in their dangerous political game, are attempting to shield Bangladeshi elements. Wherever the government conducts eviction drives--be it Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Dhubri, or Goalpara--Akhil Gogoi, Congress, and opposition forces try to instigate violence by provoking the evicted settlers. When a Satra (Vaishnavite monastery) land was encroached upon and a Satradhikar (head priest) was murdered, Akhil Gogoi and the Congress remained shamefully silent. Now, by opposing eviction, they expose their contempt for indigenous rights,' said the press statement. Spokesperson Pankaj Borbora reiterated the BJP's full support for the government's eviction drive, stating that Congress and its allies' vote-bank politics with Bangladeshi infiltrators will be fiercely opposed. The BJP is firmly committed to protecting the land, identity, and future of the indigenous people of Assam and will continue to work with dedication for their development and justice. (ANI)
