HPC Paper Mills staff back Bharat Bandh

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The HPC Paper Mills Revival Action Committee of Nagaon & Cachar Paper Mills wholeheartedly extended its support to the December 8, 2020 nationwide farmers' strike.

In a statement issued to the media, Committee's chief convener Manobendra Chakraborty said, "The present Government passed the Farmers' Bill in an absolutely autocratic manner without any discussion in the Parliament, thus deliberately disobeyed the basic norms of democracy. On scrutiny, it has been unveiled that the Bill has no rule to protect the MSP (Minimum Support Price) for farmers. Therefore, there is every possibility of the farmers who feed the nation to be inhumanly exploited by corporate houses.

"Moreover, since the stock limit of essential commodities has been withdrawn, big corporate cronies would have unlimited rights to stock food items and will establish absolute monopoly in price control. The citizens of the nation, irrespective of their status, would be victimized by those cronies by imposing abnormal price on all food commodities. The citizens of the entire nation would become bonded and bound by the terms dictated by a few favoured capitalists of this government.

"We have seen on the HPC Paper Mills issue that the Government, by suspending production at Cachar Paper Mill, extended ample opportunities to a few private parties. Two lakh youths of Assam lost employment, 76 workers died under various compelling circumstances due to nonpayment of salary for 47 months."

Chakraborty further said, "The citizens have to get united to save India from of a few corporate houses, and to resist all illegal acts. We feel it is essential to extend solidarity to the farmers."

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