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Hans India
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
SKM, trade unions stage dharna against Centre's ‘oligarchy-promoting' policies
Hyderabad: The Kisan Morcha on Tuesday called upon the working class to unitedly fight until the central government withdraws its pro-corporate policies. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) state conveners T Sagar, Pashya Padma, trade union joint action committee leaders Paladugu Bhaskar, Venkatesh, Suryam, Y Srinivas, Chandra Shekhar, and Public Sector Employees Federation secretary Nageswara Rao led a dharna held in front of the Central Labour Commissioner's office on Tuesday. 'We are organising a dharna in front of the Central Labour Commissioner's office as part of the nationwide protests being organised on Tuesday,' they said. The protesters demanded that the four labour codes be repealed, the minimum wage for workers be fixed at 26,000, the 8-hour work schedule be continued, and that public sector enterprises not be tied to private corporate companies. They demanded that the new agricultural market draft be withdrawn, that a law be made to purchase at support prices by adding 50 percent to C2, that farmer loans be canceled, that a comprehensive law be made to protect tenant farmers, that the Indo-American Free Trade Agreement be rejected, that the Employment Guarantee Scheme be increased to 200 days and the daily wage to Rs 600, the Electricity Amendment Act be repealed. They demanded that a minimum support price be allocated and purchased for the crops grown by farmers. J Venkatesh, Eswar Rao, Srikanth Kurapati Ramesh (CITU), M Shobhan, Prabhulingam (Farmers Association), SL Padma, Anuradha (IFTU), Narasimha, Yadagiri (AITUC) and others participated in the protest.
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Nehru gave Pakistan not only water but also money, Shivraj Singh Chouhan tells farmers in govt outreach on IWT
NEW DELHI: Govt has started rallying public opinion against the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), the suspension of which by India following the Pahalgam terror attack has been termed by Pakistan "an act of war". Days after calling the 1960 treaty a "historic mistake", Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday met farmers organisations and explained to them how the then PM Jawaharlal Nehru signed the treaty despite opposition from experts. He said that Nehru not only agreed to give water to Pakistan at the cost of India but also gave Rs 83 crore to the neighbouring country, whose value now amounts to Rs 5,500 crore. Chouhan was referring to the amount that India gave to Pakistan to help build replacement canals from the western rivers of the Indus system. "We had been giving waters to Pakistan at the cost of our farmers' interest, but the neighbouring country has been responsible for producing terrorists," said Chouhan, adding that even former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had opposed the Indus Waters Treaty in Parliament. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like コンピュータでゲームをするのが好きなら、この新しいアドベンチャーゲームは必ずプレイすべきです。 アドベンチャーゲーム ゲームをプレイ Undo Referring to Nehru's remarks where he reportedly said that India bought peace by extending financial assistance to Pakistan, Chouhan said, "What kind of peace was that? We lost water as well as money." Explaining the rationale behind keeping the treaty in abeyance, Chouhan said, "Waters of Indus river system will now be used for India and its farmers." Representatives of several organisations, including Samyukta Kisan Morcha and Bharatiya Kisan Union (non-political), attended the meeting. They supported govt's move on the treaty and even demanded that it be abrogated.
