[Marxistindia] Condemn Brutal Repression of Agitating Workers

[news from the cpi(m)]

April 14, 2026

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Condemn Brutal Repression of Agitating Workers

 

The CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal repression unleashed on agitating
factory workers in Delhi NCR's industrial belt by the BJP-ruled state
governments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. 

 

The workers have been engaged in a prolonged struggle for wage increase and
the implementation of statutory benefits. Instead of addressing these
legitimate demands, both the governments have let loose the police on the
workers and resorted to filing false cases against workers' leaders. They
have even shamelessly insinuated that genuine protests are being instigated
by external forces and branded workers' leaders as conspirators.


Now it is being reported that the police are raiding villages,
indiscriminately beating up workers and arresting hundreds of them. The
whereabouts of the arrested workers are not being shared with their
families.

 

Over the past two and a half months, workers across several parts of the
country, especially in North India, have spontaneously risen in protest
against inhuman working and living conditions, stagnant wages, denial of
basic labour rights, and the callous, pro-management attitude of labour
departments. The workers' upsurge in the National Capital Region is the
latest expression of this growing discontent.

 

The CPI(M) expresses full solidarity with the workers' struggles, demands
their immediate release and unconditional withdrawal of all cases filed
against them. It calls upon the police and the respective state governments
to put an end to all repressive and vindictive measures, and to address the
workers' legitimate demands through discussions with their representatives.

 

 

Muralidharan

For CPI(M) Central Committee Office

 

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