A police officer interacting with a gaggle of migrant labourers in Karur district on Sunday.
| Photo Credit: Special association
Alleging an ulterior motive of communal and divisive forces to divide the employees by creating panic amongst migrant staff in Tamil Nadu, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Tuesday urged them to be alert to “conspiratorial moves”.
In a press release issued right here, CITU common secretary Tapan Sen mentioned a video of migrant staff from Bihar allegedly getting severely crushed up in Tamil Nadu created nervousness and concern among the many folks of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and different States.
“It has also created panic among the migrant workers, especially those from north India working in Tamil Nadu. This has apparently been circulated by the BJP-led forces with an ulterior motive to get political mileage out of it,” Mr. Sen mentioned.
He mentioned the Tamil Nadu authorities and its police division swiftly acted and located that there was no such incident had occurred and filed instances towards those that had created the panic. “Those include the BJP Tamil Nadu president and one of the party’s Uttar Pradesh spokesman. The CITU strongly condemns this heinous act and demands an exemplary punishment to the guilty,” Mr. Sen mentioned.
He mentioned the BJP had betrayed the migrant staff by repealing the Inter-State Migrant Workers Act, 1979, whereas codifying the labour regulation and achieved away with the protections and authorized rights to the migrant staff on the time of the pandemic. “The CITU demands strict implementation of the Act throughout the country by all State governments,” he added.
