INTUC, BMS to Left: Pull down UPA

INTUC and BMS have said the Left ought to withdraw support to the UPA Government instead of calling strikes if it opposes the Centre’s ...

INTUC and BMS have said the Left ought to withdraw support to the UPA Government instead of calling strikes if it opposes the Centre’s economic and labour policies.

INTUC secretary R P K Murugesan said there were political overtones to the issues that the Left had raised for its survival during the strike call. “If the Left believes there has been a violation of the Common Minimum Programme, the proper thing would be to withdraw support,” he said.

His views were echoed by the BMS’ Hasubhai Dave who said the Left was a part of the UPA government and ought to withdraw support instead of striking if it opposed its policies.

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“This is purely a political strike to pressurise the UPA while supporting it,” he said. Dave said the strike appeared successful only because it had affected the banking and insurance sectors and passenger air services.

Murugesan said INTUC felt there was nothing wrong about divestment in profit-making PSUs as long as the government retained a majority stake and the remaining shares did not get concentrated in a few hands. That was why his union wanted workers to be offered PSU shares after divestment, he said.

The INTUC secretary said divestment provided the government the money it needed for reforming the social sector without having to borrow from the World Bank or International Monetary Fund. Dave said the BMS had no objections to the workers’ demands raised in the charter for today’s strike but it opposed the actions of the Left trade unions.

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