Reddy alleged that the government was not recognising INTUC as the largest trade union organisation in the country with 3.31 crore members despite “submission of all documents for verification”.
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Accusing the Prime Minister of waging a warfare on the labour class, Rahul asserted that the federal government, which ought to be impartial, has abandoned the labourers and is making an attempt its degree greatest to deliver them down on their knees by decreasing their primary safety and requirements.
“Someone(VK Singh) who speaks against Dalits has no right to be a minister, PM must remove him”, Azad said. But you gain little from it. The Prime Minister wants to make India a global manufacturing hub.
Congress sources said Rahul Gandhi wants to deny any political advantage to the BJP Government on the implementation of key economic reform initiatives like the GST.
This, he claimed, was because the Prime Minister considers Indian worker as “dishonest, shirker and one who could be made to work only by wielding the stick”.
These words, Rahul said, hide more than they reveal. “He thinks he can make labourers work by force and motivate them with fear”, Rahul said. He thinks he can break and self-discipline them. “If you see the new laws being made in Rajasthan, Gujarat and now in Haryana, it is very clear that Mr. Modi has launched a major assault on the rights of workers”, he said. The issue of Gen Singh’s “dog” analogy in reference to the burning of two Dalitchildren in Faridabad, raked up by the Congress and other Opposition parties including the BSP, had rocked both the Houses last week. “It started with “achche din”, then came “Swachch Bharat”, “Smart Cities”, “Make in India”, “Digital India” and now “Accessible India”. God knows what’s coming now after this. “Endangering job security, weakening unions and reducing basic necessities can not ensure the success of Make in India”.
The Congress said it will continue to boycott Singh in Parliament.
“The trade union movement has to be aware that at present Indian economy faces a fragile recovery and inadequate expansion of employment opportunities”. It is generally agreed that we need at least 500 million skilled workers by 2022.
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At the same time, he said that industrial strife, strikes and lockouts are “not the best means” to resolve unrest.
