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Insurance workers call to defeat NDA

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, APRIL 20. The insurance employees have asked the working class in the country to defeat the National Democratic Alliance in the coming Lok Sabha polls. The five years of the Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA had been "an unmitigated disaster for the nation and a black chapter in the history of the trade unions,'' they said.

The All-India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA), which represents majority of the insurance employees, said in a statement today that the NDA manifesto clearly outlined programme for "liquidation'' of the public sector if elected back to power. The NDA had also made its intentions on amending the labour laws known.

"It aims to privatise LIC and the public sector General Insurance companies. It wants to dilute the Government equity in the public sector banks to the extent of 67 per cent and increase the foreign holding in the insurance sector to 49 per cent from the present 26 per cent,'' R.C. Sharma, divisional secretary of the Northern Zone Insurance Employees' Association, affiliated to AIIEA, said.

Calling on the working class to defeat NDA and vote for a "secular and democratic alternative'', Mr. Sharma said the economic policies pursued by the NDA Government had led to creating unemployment, increase in poverty, widening of income disparities and destruction of public sector. "The Indian society is being divided on communal lines for partisan political gains. The State sponsored pogrom in Gujarat has made the minorities insecure,'' he pointed out.

"The working classes were denied the right to organise and agitate. The NDA Government has shamelessly surrendered to the geo-political designs of American imperialism by abandoning the time tested non-aligned foreign policy,'' Mr. Sharma charged.

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