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  • Dharma Sansad: Left outfits protest against attacks on minorities

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Thousands of people, owing allegiance to the CPI(ML) Liberation, the AISA, and the AICCTU, on Monday staged a demonstration outside the Uttarakhand Bhawan, here, against the hate speech made recently against the people of the minority community.

    The protesters demanded the arrest of the people, who were allegedly involved in making inflammatory speeches and instigating the people to target the minority people, and the immediate resignation of the Uttarakhand chief minister.

    Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, while addressing the protesters, said that those far-right individuals and organizations, backed by BJP, are playing communal card to divide the nation.

    Equating the Dharma-Sansad- that was organized from December 17 to 20 in Utarrakhand with Nazi Germany’s ‘Final Solution’, Bhattacharya said: ” The Uttarakhand hate speech assembly that called upon the people for the genocide of Muslim community is similar to the act of Nazi German’s  ‘Final Solution’. 

    He underscored the need for the democratic forces to come together to ensure that fascist forces are thrown out of power.

    He said that from Haridwar to Delhi and Raipur to Udupi, the Sangh- brigade is bent upon instigating communal violence ahead of the coming state elections. He made a call to the people of the country to foil the nefarious designs.

    The Left-associated people protesting outside the Uttarakhand Bhawan also sought the resignation of Uttarakhand CM taking moral responsibility for what happened at the Dharma-Sansad against a particular community.

    N Sai Balaji-president of the All India Students Association (AISA) demanded the immediate arrest of all the hate-mongers. He lambasted the BJP government for maintaining stony silence over such inflammatory calls against a particular community at an assembly organized as Dharma-Sansad.

  • JNU central library’s sanitation workers allege non-payment of salaries since November

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Sanitation workers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s central library have alleged that the varsity had not paid their salaries since last November.

    The All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) said in a statement on Tuesday that the workers had been on strike for 23 days, alleging that the JNU administration denied them equal pay and safety equipments.

    “Till June 2020 (till complete lockdown), they were paid Rs 12,900 per month (for 26 days work month), which is far below the minimum wage,” it said.

    The AICCTU alleged that the workers had been paid a meagre Rs 9,000 in the name of a month’s salary after the two weeks’ strike.

    “Those who clean the every corner of the campus are not being paid,” said Urmila Chauhan, president of the All India General Kamgar Union, a body affiliated with the AICCTU.

    “The so-called corona warriors who have to face the deadly virus without any protective equipment have to go without salaries for months,” Chauhan said.

    “This is nothing less than bonded labour.”

    The union alleged that the workers’ grievances include retrenchment and “victimisation” of the union office-bearers, non-payment of bonus, irregularities in PF contribution, and non-issuance of ID cards and salary slips.