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More than 30 crore workers, farmers, cultivation workers, and different groups of employees participated successful the general onslaught connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) to protestation against the four Labour Codes and the free commercialized deals being struck with the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom, the cardinal commercialized unions said.
The associated onslaught telephone was fixed by the CTUs and the workplace unions of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). Their charter included demands to retreat the Draft Seeds Bill, Electricity (Amendment) Bill, Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act and the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill.
Strike actions and monolithic mobilisations were reported from much than 600 districts crossed the country, the CTUs said successful a statement. “In mining/manufacturing/service sectors, among the ceremonial and informal labour, immense interaction of the onslaught and mobilisation was witnessed,” they added.
“The workers/employees successful astir of the Industrial areas successful the country, including successful galore MNCs, joined the onslaught successful a large mode and organised processions. The defence assemblage employees held protestation demonstrations with 1 hr chopped of enactment successful enactment of strike. The railway unions mobilised and participated successful solidarity actions,” the CTUs said, adding that the government’s attempts to cripple antiauthoritarian movements done assorted means has further angered the moving people and the farming community.
Worker-peasant unity
The SKM congratulated farmers and workers for the palmy strike. “It is 1 of the largest ever wide strikes successful the past of autarkic India and specifically noted for cementing the worker-peasant unity arsenic the backbone of the wide absorption against the firm policies being vehemently pursued by the BJP-led NDA authorities nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” the SKM connection said.
“Anger among the moving radical against the FTAs, VB GRAMG Act, the Electricity Bill, the Seed Bill, the Insurance Act, SHANTI Act and anti-people Union Budget 2026-27 and the discontent against the denial of minimum enactment terms arsenic per MS Swaminathan Commission look for each crops with guaranteed procurement, unwillingness to state broad indebtedness waiver to liberate husbandman households from indebtedness and extremity continuance of the tragic peasant suicides has reflected connected the thoroughfare protests arsenic portion of the wide strike,” the farmers’ assemblage said. The SKM’s nationalist assembly is acceptable to conscionable connected February 24 astatine Kurukshetra, Haryana to sermon the adjacent signifier of action.
Trade Union Coordination Centre (TUCC) person G. Devarajan said the unprecedented effect from millions of moving radical has erstwhile again demonstrated the unity, strength, and antiauthoritarian resoluteness of India’s toiling masses. “The onslaught was a almighty look of protestation against a bid of anti-worker, anti-farmer and pro-corporate policies being pursued by the Union Government,” helium added.
