On the one hand, while the Congress has announced its full support to make the Bharat Bandh called by the Central Labor Organization United Forum on January 8 in Odisha, on the other hand, the state's ruling party Biju Janata Dal has also called the bandh informal The support information has been given by the forum. Keeping in mind the Bharat Bandh, the government has declared a holiday in schools, colleges on Wednesday. A press release from the state education department has informed about the closure of the educational institution on Wednesday.
According to the information received, a nationwide bandh has been called on Wednesday by the organization of INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC etc. on the 12-point demand. CITU's Bhubaneswar president Navkishore Mahanti has said that every effort has been made to make the bandh a success. We have also requested the state government to support the bandh. This bandh will be followed from 6 am to 6 pm. The transportation service will be completely stalled except for essential services. He said that the All Odisha Transport Association, Truck Federation, Odisha Auto Federation are also included in this bandh.
This shutdown has been called by the Central Labor Organization Joint Forum against the anti-labor policy, anti-people policy and anti-national policy of the Central Government. The Union Labor Ministry has failed to meet the demand of workers. The Indian Labor Conference has not been called since July 2015 to resolve the labor problem. The decision to sell BPCL, merge BSNL and MTNL is expected to recruit 94 thousand employees. Apart from this, the union has called this bandh in protest against the decision of the central government like the mixture of banks.
