UFBU Circular No. 11:
As already announced and scheduled, we had organised our Dharna before Parliament today in Delhi. Our Dharna was held near Jantar Mantar, near Parliament Street. Nearly 700 members from all our 9 constituent unions participated in the programme and made it an impressive success.
Our Dharna was addressed by the following:
- Com. Girish Chandra Arya, BMS 2. Com. Deepak Sharma, INTUC
- Com. Amarjeet Kaur, AITUC
- Com. Tapan Sen, ex MP and CITU 5. Com. Rajiv Dimri, AICCTU
- Com. R K Sharma, AIUTUC
- Com. Amaresh, TUCC,
- Com. Arvind Sawant, MP, Shiv Sena/BKS
- Com. Anil Desai, MP, Shiv Sena/BKSM
10.Com. D Raja, ex MP, CPI
11.Com. Binoy Viswam, MP, CPI
12.Com. N K Premachandran, MP, RSP/UTUC 13.Com. Ravikumar, MP, VCK
14.Com. Rajen Nagar, President, AIBEA
15.Com. Murali Sundararajan, President, AIBOC 16.Com. S.C. Balaji, President, NCBE
17.Com. Sanjay Kumar Khan, Secretary, AIBOA 18.Com. Debashish Basu, General Secretary, BEFI 19.Com. O P Sharma, INBEF
20.Com. Pradip Gupta, INBOC
21.Com. Manmohan Gupta, BNOW
22.Com. Satish Shetty, NOBO
23.Com. C H Venkatachalam, Gen. Secretary, AIBEA
Many other trade union leaders and Members of Parliament from Congress, DMK, RJD, AAP, TRS, CPI-M, etc. had agreed to come and greet our participants but could not come as they were held up in Parliament and other programmes. However, they conveyed their support and solidarity with our struggles and demands.
The Central Trade Union leaders and Members of Parliament and other leaders who spoke on the occasion stressed the importance of unity of bank employees and united actions to resist the present attacks and offensives of the Government. They applauded the united struggles of the UFBU and exhorted us to further strengthen the unity and united struggles.
At the end, the participants in the Dharna adopted a Declaration that if the Government would take any measures to introduce the Bank Privatisation Bill during the current Session of the Parliament, the UFBU would immediately give the call for protest programmes and strike actions.
Another Declaration was adopted conveying the strong protest of UFBU against the dictated, vindictive recommendations of the Report by Arvind Panagaria (formerly of NIITI Aayog) and Poonam Gupta of NCAER suggesting wholesale privatisation of Banks and demanding the rejection of the Report.
Thus, our Dharna programme was an impressive success. UFBU-Delhi had made good arrangements for the successful conduct of our Dharna programme. We thank all the constituent unions and all the participants for their active participation in the programme.
With greetings,
Yours comradely,
C.H. VENKATACHALAM GENERAL SECRETARY