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Over a lakh fill jails in Tripura seeking
minimum wages
Tuesday November 08, 2011 07:56:02 PM,
IANS
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Agartala: Over 1.22 lakh working people were arrested in Left-ruled Tripura Tuesday in
a 'jail bharo' (fill the jail) agitation by 11 trade unions in
support of six-point demands, including fixation of minimum wage
at Rs.10,000 per month.
"The agitation was massive and spontaneous. Over 1.22 lakh working
people, including women, cutting across party lines have been
arrested from 21 places across Tripura," Centre of Indian Trade
Unions (CITU) leader Sankar Datta told reporters.
Besides Datta, also a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)
legislator, senior Left leaders who were arrested in the stir
include Gautam Das, CITU state general secretary Pijush Nag,
Biswanath Saha, Krishna Rakshit and Bijoy Roy.
"Over 13,000 trade union activists were arrested in Agartala while
protesting in front of the central government offices and railway
stations," Datta said.
Eleven central trade unions, backed by the Left parties, Congress
and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called the country-wide 'jail
bharo' agitation in support of six points demands.
The demands include rollback of petro product price hikes and
check prices of essentials, halt disinvestment in central and
state undertakings, linkage of employment protection with the
concessions or incentives offered to entrepreneurs, universal
social security cover for the unorganised sector, new pension
policy cancel and pension scheme for all works and compulsory
registration of trade unions within 45 days.
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