Activists, artists question police action on Noida workers

In a statement, astir 500 taste activists, academics and artists, including histrion Naseeruddin Shah, instrumentalist T.M. Krishna and writer K. Satchidanandan person demanded that the authorities prosecute with protesting workers successful the Delhi-NCR portion sympathetically and not dainty the protests arsenic a ‘law and order’ issue. “Immediately merchandise each workers, their leaders, artists and intellectuals who person been arrested successful transportation with these protests,” a merchandise issued by them stated.

Separately, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha and a level of 10 cardinal commercialized unions rejected the communicative astir the engagement of “anti-national forces and Pakistan” successful the workers’ uprising and demanded that the Union and the Uttar Pradesh governments ain up to their “criminal neglect” of the workers’ genuine demands and fulfil them immediately.