Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: The ACMS (Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha) has called tea estate bandh in the State on January 8 as a mark of its support to the all-India strike called by various trade unions of the nation against, what they say, anti-labourer policy of the Central government and the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act).
Apart from the ACMS, a number of motor transport workers’ associations of the State have also called a chakkah bandh on that day.
Senior ACMS leader Lankeswar Tanti, in a statement issued to the media on Sunday, said that the Central government has been enacting a number of Acts that go against the interest of workers and labourers only to subserve the interest of capitalists. “A conspiracy has been hatched to hand over all public sector undertakings (PSUs) to private parties, to make thousands of labourers jobless. Two HPC paper mills in Assam have been closed for the past three years only because of failure of the government. The families of the employees of the two paper mills have to pass their days without getting their salaries. Even the government hasn’t taken any measure for the development and protection of the tea industry in the State. Apart from this, pouring cold waters on the hopes and aspirations of the common masses, the government at the Centre has imposed the CAA on the people of Assam,” Tanti said.