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CITU warns of agitation

NEW DELHI: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has denounced the Finance Minister’s “overzealous” announcement that he will go ahead with his plan to finish the “so-called unfinished agenda” of neo-liberal reforms, which pertain to privatisation and deregulation of the financial sector in pension, banking and insurance.

Cautioning the United Progressive Alliance government against taking such “retrograde moves,” which will throw the economy deeper into the grip of speculative interests, the CITU has called upon the people, particularly the working class, to make the general strike called for August 20 a success. It has also warned of a bigger countrywide resistance against such contemplated measures of privatisation and deregulation.

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