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The 106th Foundation Day of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was celebrated successful the metropolis connected Thursday with an introspection connected the achievements and gains made by the organisation.
The lawsuit was conducted by AITUC’s Mysuru territory unit. H.R. Seshadri, vice-president, AITUC National Committee, said that the commercialized national assemblage was instrumental successful spearheading galore agitations and struggles which culminated successful enactment of laws to support the workers and their rights.
Mr. Seshadri recalled the publication of galore nationalist leaders similar Lala Lajpat Rai, the archetypal president of AITUC, and said that the organisation led galore agitations adjacent successful the pre-Independent era.
Underlining the value of learning from history, Mr. Seshadri said that it was imperative for the moving people to larn from the past if they privation to make their ain history. “Our beingness should not beryllium confined to warring for bonuses oregon rights, but we person a larger societal responsibility; the AITUC’s constitution is precise wide astir it,” helium added.
The AITUC volition not lone strive for the betterment of the moving people of the country, but besides instrumentality connected the larger societal work of agitating for pro-people policies, said Mr. Seshadri.
Be it warring for a argumentation that eschews warfare astatine the nationalist level, promoting communal harmony, oregon raising larger issues germane to the commoners of the country, AITUC has a work and the workers should beryllium alert of it, Mr. Seshadri added.
He besides underlined the value of workers being politically alert and being capable to comprehend its nuances. AITUC has been palmy successful upholding oregon warring for the rights of the moving people of the country; however, it has been unsuccessful successful thwarting the emergence of communal forces and galore of the workers person been influenced by it, helium stated. “While immoderate of the workers clasp reddish flags successful the factory, they besides rise saffron oregon greenish flags extracurricular the mill premises and this calls for introspection,” Mr. Seshadri said.
Senior leaders of AITUC were contiguous astatine the event.
