Pointing out that the country was moving towards dictatorship, CITU today asked all sections of the society, including working class and students, to come together to counter attack the evil designs of the present rulers.

“Those in the Government are trying to impose their ideology on the people and give new definition to patriotism and nationalism and want others to follow them,” CITU President, A.K. Padmanabhan said here.

Addressing the 11th Tamil Nadu conference of Bank Employes Federation of India (BEFI), he said that since the implementation of liberalisation policy in 1991, the Central governments were implementing the policies, which had seriously affected the working class and public sector.

The main agenda was the withdrawal of the government from all PSUs and banks by disinvestment of strategic sales, resulting in maximisation of profit to private entrepreneurs and deindustrialisation, he alleged.

The present rulers were also following the same policies, but going one step ahead and trying to impose their ideology on others and those opposed to them were attacked and dubbed as anti-nationals, Padmanabhan said.

Admitting that major trade unions, including CITU, had failed to counter attack the alleged onslought on the rights of workers, like trying to amend the labour laws and right to unions, he said it was high time that all the sections of the society – students, working class and those impacted by the present dispensation, to align on one platform and fight to save the country from moving towards dictatorship.

The government had impacted the common man by reducing the interest on small savings, PPF, etc.

To decide the future course of action to save democracy and soverignty of the country, all Central trade union were meeting in Delhi on March 30, he said.