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The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has fixed a telephone to the moving people to marque the February 12, 2026 wide onslaught against what it has termed the draconian Labour Codes and the multi-pronged onslaught by the cardinal authorities connected the people’s rights and entitlements, a large success.
The five-day 18th CITU All India Conference came to an extremity connected Sunday (January 4, 2026), with thousands of workers and leaders of the CITU taking portion successful an awesome rally taken retired from the Ambedkar Statue astatine the Life Insurance Corporation bureau to Indira Priyadarshini Municipal Stadium successful the I Town country successful Visakhapatnam, which culminated successful a nationalist meeting.
On the last time of the conference, the CITU elected its caller office-bearers, with Sudeep Dutta arsenic its nationalist president and A. Karim arsenic wide secretary. Five persons from Telugu-speaking States, including Ch. Narasinga Rao and G. Babi Rani (Andhra Pradesh), and A.V. Nageswara Rao, M. Saibabu. and Chukka Ramulu (Telangana) besides recovered a spot successful the nationalist body.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Dutta said the moving people conflict volition beforehand from this day. Workers successful each sector, close from agriculture to factories, are the radical who are moving the society, the federation and producing the wealthiness of the country, helium said. “We are ever connected the thoroughfare and working, wrong oregon extracurricular the house, but we are not visible. When we clasp the reddish flag, radical volition travel to know,” Mr. Dutta said.
Labour and honour: On the 4 Labour Codes, the way ahead
“The ruling people has brought the 4 Labour Codes to exploit workers and instrumentality distant what we achieved with 100 years of struggle,” helium said. “They person taken distant the close to 100 days enactment successful agrarian areas. They privation to suppress the moving class. We volition combat with each our might. We won’t let them to instrumentality an inch of our rights,” helium added.
The Central commercialized unions and peasant organsiations had decided to observe the largest wide onslaught of caller times (on February 12), helium said.
“We volition stall the full country. We volition travel connected to the streets successful thousands. Workers from antithetic sectors of each States and languages volition articulation us. We volition artifact roads and railways. We volition halt production. We volition marque the authorities recognize the powerfulness of moving class,” Mr. Dutta said.
Addressing workers, Mr. Narasinga Rao said CITU’s five-year conflict had stopped the privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP). “Our agitation made backstage companies who came guardant to instrumentality implicit the VSP spell back. Not conscionable the alloy plant, we person besides successfully stopped the privatisation of the shipyard (Hindustan Shipyard Limited),” Mr. Rao said.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), erstwhile it was successful the Opposition, had assured enactment to their agitation, and had besides promised to heighten the wages of the VSP workers, helium added. After coming to power, the authorities did not fulfil its promise, Mr. Rao said.
