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TUCI Stands in Solidarity with Delhi-Noida Contract Workers Against Corporate Exploitation

2026-04-22T10:06:44Z

TRADE UNION CENTRE OF INDIA (TUCI) Central Committee

No: K-16 Kirki Extension Malvi Nagar New Delhi:110017

Cell:9880930683

www.tuci.in

PRESS RELEASE

The Central Committee of the Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI) extends its full and unwavering support to the ongoing struggles of industrial Contract workers in the Delhi–Noida region.

The workers have risen in protest against exploitative practices of capitalist and corporate contract companies, which continue to extract labour power under conditions of unjustly low wages, long working hours, and denial of basic labour rights. These conditions amount to a clear violation of existing labour laws and officially notified wage rates.

This struggle represents a fundamental class conflict between low wages and high profits, where workers are asserting their right to dignity, fair compensation, and humane working conditions.

TUCI’s Key Demands:

Immediate withdrawal of police forces deployed against protesting workers.

Unconditional release of all arrested workers and activists.

Strict enforcement of labour laws and minimum wage notifications.

Declaration of a ₹35,000 standard minimum wage for workers in Delhi.

End to exploitative contract labour practices in corporate sectors.

The TUCI strongly condemns the repressive measures adopted by the government led by Narendra Modi, which seeks to suppress legitimate democratic struggles through force and intimidation.

We call upon all political parties, trade unions, democratic organisations, and civil society groups to extend their solidarity and active support to this important workers’ movement. The outcome of this struggle will have far-reaching implications for the working class across North India and beyond.

The TUCI Central Committee reiterates that the rights and dignity of workers must not be sacrificed in the name of profit and corporate growth. The unity and determination of the working class will continue to drive this struggle forward.

Com.Sabi Joshef

Prasident

Com.Labha Shing

National Vice prasident

Com.R.Manasayya

General Secretary

16-4-2026

New Delhi

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Stop cutting the throats of contract workers! (Successful workers protest in Bengaluru!)

2026-04-16T06:16:15Z

Stop cutting the throats of contract workers!

(Successful workers protest in Bengaluru!)

Under the leadership of the Karnataka State Residential School Outsourced Employees Union (TUCI), contract workers from all districts of the state protested for the whole day at Freedom Park in the capital Bengaluru on 15-4-2026.

The workers who have been working in various government departments for the last 20-25 years should be made permanent as per the law. The important demand that all contract workers should be paid the same salary as permanent employees until they are made permanent was effectively presented in the protest camp. The state government is doing injustice to the workers by violating the labor laws. Instead of the monthly wage of 19,000-21,000 announced by the state government, the outsourcing agencies are paying 13000 to the head cook, 12000 to the assistant cook, and only 11000 to the cleaning and security staff. The state government on one hand and the agencies on the other are cheating the workers who work for ten to fifteen hours a day, without weekly holidays, festival holidays or national holidays, in government-style hostels. This has been done in violation of the Minimum Wages Act-1948 and the Payment of Wages Act-1936 and the Contract Cancellation and Regulation Act-1970, and most of the judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Court that have been in favor of contract workers so far. Therefore, it was demanded that the Siddaramaiah government should maintain its commitment. Without delay, strict legal action should be taken against the outsourcing agencies that stole the wages of the workers in all the districts of the state. The stolen wages should be returned to the workers in the form of arrears. The scheduled work and scheduled holidays should be given. It was demanded throughout the protest that the government should implement equal pay for equal work.

Shri Kantaraj, Executive Director of Karnataka State Residential Educational Society’s, and other officials listened to the demands of the workers for an average of one and a half hours at the protest camp. He then promised the workers that he would take legal action to fulfill their demands.

The struggle was led by Trade Union Center of India General Secretary Com R Manasayya, State Secretary Com M Gangadhar, Com HS Mallesh Bommanal, G Adavirao, Adesh Naganur Basavaraj Wind Power, Ramesh Wind Power, Association President Krishnamurthy, Vice President Ranganath Muski, Another Vice President Sundaramma Mande District, Parvatamma Hassan, General Secretary. Mylaralingappa Koppala, Treasurer Maruti Chitradurga, Dyamanna Koppala, Madhu Soraba, Prakash Koppal, Devendrappa Sindhanur, Husenappa Bijapur, Devamma Echanal, mosaru Bega Linga Lingasagur, Devamma Devadurga, Santhosh Kavitha, Shivayya Raichur etc. were there.

The revolutionary songs of workers, farmers and revolutionaries sung by the revolutionary cultural platform RCF gave real cultural power to today’s protest. Kumar Samara Sindhanur’s song was very attractive.

Abolish the contract labor system!

Make all contract workers permanent!

Until then, pay equal wages for equal work!

Add agencies that steal wages to the blacklist!

Return the stolen wages in the form of arrears!

State Residential School Workers Union Zindabad!

Trade Union Centre Of India Zindabad!

Slogans of Inquilab Zindabad rang out continuously.

TUCI Karnataka

15 April 2026

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Rise up Decisively Condemning the Delimitation Bill!

2026-04-16T06:02:45Z

Rise up Decisively Condemning the Delimitation Bill!

United Opposition is Still Capable to Defeat it!

Modi government’s heinous move towards a Delimitation exercise for an inter-state redistribution and reallocation of Lok Sabha seats under the cover of ‘women’s empowerment’ is condemnable. After all, there is a broad consensus regarding reservation of one-third of the total number of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies for women. However, clubbing it with the controversial Delimitation Bill and using women’s reservation as a cover for the Delimitation exercise and superimposition of a majoritarian unitary agenda is fascistic and malicious.

As such, the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty First Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha from the existing 543 members to 850 members will be taken up in the Special Session of the Parliament to be convened on April 16 and 17. Obviously, if the Bill becomes law, its immediate impact will be an abrupt increase in Lok Sabha seats in States like UP, Uttarakhand ,Bihar, MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi, and a sharp drop in share of seats among South Indian States like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, AP, Telangana, and Puducherry. In effect, those States, mainly southern, who pursued population control measures will have only reduced representation in Lok Sabha, while the number of MPs from Hindi heartland States where BJP has its double engine regimes, will disproportionately go up.

In fact, this hurried Delimitation move on the part of RSS-BJP is in violation of accepted procedures. According to Indian Constitution and norms followed, and without going in to details, the inter-state distribution of Lok Sabha seats which was pegged to 1971 Census, can be altered only based on the first Census (2031 Census)after the year 2026. But now the Modi government is planning to use the forthcoming 2026-27 Census as the base for its Delimitation exercise, instead of 2031 Census. In this context, the hasty move for the Delimitation Bill for raising the strength of Lok Sabha to 850 seats with drastic percentage reduction in seats for Southern states, by reconvening the already concluded Budget Session of parliament, that too when crucial elections to West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are due, clearly lacks transparency.

Thus, the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill & Delimitation Bill, both clubbed together, that will shrink the share of Lok Sabha seats of Southern States, and increase that of Nother States where RSS-BJP has a dominant share of votes, if enacted, will lay down the solid foundation for a fascist, majoritarian Hindu Rashtra! Revealingly, the Modi government has resolutely denied the Oppostion request to postpone the move till the completion of the last phase of West Bengal Election. However, if the Opposition parties decide to forge a unity against this 131st Amendment Bill, it can be defeated in the floor of the House, since the BJP still lacks the required two-third majority needed for Constitutional amendments.

We appeal to all the working and oppressed people together with all progressive democratic forces to resolutely come forward opposing this majoritarian unitary move on the part of Modi regime towards the establishment of a fascist Hindu Rashtra.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

15.04.2026

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Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division strongly condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demands its withdrawal

2026-04-14T07:05:54Z

Press Release

*Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division strongly condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demands its withdrawal*

*CPI (ML) Red Star calls the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill a black law*

Raipur, April 14, 2026:
On April 13, a massive public meeting was organized at City Ground, Jagdalpur under the leadership of the Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division, condemning the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demanding its withdrawal. Thousands of women and men participated in the सभा.

Addressing the gathering were Bishop Akhilesh Edgar from Raipur, Pastor Ajay Paul, Comrade Katlam (CPI), Amarjeet Patel (State President, Mool Nivasi Sangh), Chowa Ram Sahu (Caste Annihilation Movement), Comrade Saura (State Secretary, CPI (ML) Red Star), V. N. Prasad Rao (Convenor, Jan Sangharsh Morcha Chhattisgarh), Advocate Son Singh Jhali, and other speakers.

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Comrade Saura, State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star, stated that on April 13, 1919, the day of Baisakhi, thousands had gathered when General Dyer ordered indiscriminate firing, killing hundreds. Today, the fascist RSS-BJP government has brought the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which is a preparation for brutal repression against minorities, especially the Christian community. This bill is a more cruel version of the one introduced during the Raman Singh government in 2006. It violates Article 25 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every individual the freedom to practice religion of their choice.

According to CPI (ML) Red Star, this bill has been deliberately introduced to target minorities, particularly Christians and Muslims. This became evident when a tweet from the Chief Minister’s/CMO’s account spoke about freeing the state from “non-believers,” although the tweet was later deleted. The Chief Minister or his advisors must clarify what is meant by the term “non-believers.” Does the state government have any data on how many people have been converted through inducement since 2006? Or how many cases of forced conversion have been registered since the present government came to power in 2003?

Available information suggests that no such forced conversions are taking place in the state. Chhattisgarh is facing severe poverty and unemployment, while natural resources—jal, jungle, zameen—are being handed over to corporate houses under state patronage. As a result, attacks on poor working people are intensifying in the interests of corporate forces.

The hardships of Dalits, oppressed sections, women, Adivasis, minorities, and the working masses are increasing. To divert attention from these issues, the Sangh-backed, Manuvadi fascist forces find it necessary—like in Maharashtra—to launch a new hate campaign against minorities, especially Christians and Muslims. Under this campaign, incidents such as harassment of Christian nuns in Durg, attacks on Christian communities and their prayer sites by Bajrang Dal groups, obstruction of burial rites in Kanker and across Bastar, and even exhumation and reburial of bodies at unknown locations by the administration are being carried out.

All speakers unanimously stated that today, corporate houses are ruling the country in alliance with Sangh-backed fascist forces. The Modi government is serving corrupt corporate giants like Adani and Ambani. The poor, working masses, oppressed sections, SCs, STs, OBCs, and minorities are suffering. There is an urgent need for all to unite and fight against these fascist forces.

The Bastar Division convention of the Christian Unity Forum in Jagdalpur has called upon all democratic and progressive forces of the state to unite and strongly oppose this conspiratorial and divisive bill.

Comrade Saura
State Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Sta uh

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Punjab State Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star Holds Extended Study Class at Tapa, Barnala

2026-04-04T15:33:16Z

An extended meeting/study class of the State Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star Punjab was organized at Tapa, District Barnala, Punjab on 3rd April 2026. Comrade Nachhatar Singh (SCM) presided over the meeting. Comrade Labh Singh, Secretary of the Punjab State Committee, explained the objectives of the meeting.

Comrade Tuhin (PBM) elaborated in detail on the CPI (ML) Red Star’s outlook regarding the international and all-India situation, as well as the process of the Party’s 13th Party Congress to be held in Raichur, Karnataka.

The comrades held serious discussions on the aggression against Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon by US imperialism and its watchdog, the terrorist Zionist Israel. They also critically examined the subservient role of the fascist RSS–Modi government towards US imperialism and Zionism.

The meeting emphasized the necessity of building a Bolshevik-style Communist Party structure, along with class and mass organizations, to effectively fight imperialism, saffron fascism, and the corporate nexus, and to ensure the successful completion of the People’s Democratic Revolution (PDR).

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Redstar Hindi – April ,2026 Issue

2026-04-03T13:13:30Z

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Redstar English – April 2026 Issue

2026-04-03T13:06:23Z

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Preventing Takeover of States by “Fascist Double Engine” is the Prime Task in the Assembly Elections

2026-03-31T15:53:21Z

Preventing Takeover of States by “Fascist Double Engine” is the Prime Task in the Assembly Elections!

Assembly Elections to Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are scheduled in Aptil 2026. The single-phase election to the first three States takes pace on 9 April and that in Tamil Nadu on 23 April. A two-phase Election is superimposed on West Bengal, which will take place on 23 and 29 April 2026. While in Puduchery, BJP is in power as part of a coalition with its fascist ally, Assam is already under the fascist diktats of the “double engine”. Obviously, in the elections for the other three opposition-ruled States, both BJP and its ideological mentor RSS are now engaged in a maddening offensive to capture power by all means to bring them also under the corporate-fascist stranglehold.

In this regard, the role of the Election Commission, which is transformed as a pliable tool of the Central regime, and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll intended to consolidate pro-BJP votes have become decisve. If the 2002 SIR had given six months time for submitting the filled-in forms, now only 30 days are there for submitting the filled-in forms for enrolling the voters. In the guise of eliminating ineligible voters, the oppressed in general, and Muslims in particular, whom the Indian fascists target as their number one enemy, are systematically excluded from the voter list. Millions of disenfranchised citizens who are condemned to live as ragpickers, masons, domestic helpers, and other unorganised workers who live in slums, will be denied citizenship also in course of time, as SIR is widely acknowledged as the precursor to NRC. While RSS-BJP leaders attempt to allay fears of disenfranchised Hindus that they had nothing to fear about it, since they could be safely accomodated under provisions of CAA, the Muslims are not entitled to such consolations, as CAA is essentially anti-Muslim. This is the case particularly in West Bengal, a State where the BJP and the entire central fascist machinery are specifically concentrating their attention, and where many hundreds of thousands of erstwhile Muslim migrants and refugees from Bangladesh having Aadhaar, Voter Cards and Ration Cards are excluded from voter list, in spite of the belated judicial intervention in this regard.

Now, with Election Commission including the administration and police under its control, immense corporate money power with more than 82% of Electoral Trust Fund at BJP’s disposal and backed by a propaganda blitzkrieg together with Godi media, the fascist forces are spearheading their election campaign in the opposition-ruled states. In conformity with erstwhile RSS dictum (as explained by Golwalkar) that federalism is a “poisonous seed”, the ultimate aim of the corporate-fascist intervention is the establishment of a majoritarian unitary regime by undermining the federal structure of the Constitution. As such, even to safeguard the very structure and character of the existing Constitution, it is the solemn task of all anti-fascist democratic forces to totally isolate and defeat the BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections.

To accomplish this crucial task, and to be very precise, the central focus on the part of all anti-fascist forces and even non-fascist forces, irrespective of their ideological orientation, should be to avoid a division of the anti-fascist or anti-BJP votes in the Elections, since fascism is an extremely dangerous and terrorist dictatorship led by the most reactionary section of the ruling class, now represented by the corporate-Hindutva forces in India. In other words, to prevent a situation of BJP’s ascendance to power in these States, the clear-cut central slogan in the Election should be “Defeat BJP/Defeat Fascism”. Of course, while taking up this immediate and indispensable task of preventing fascist takeover of power in States, care should also be taken by progressive-democratic forces to avoid opportunistic adjustments with both allies and apologists of fascism. Further, while taking up this immediate task of defeating fascists in the Assembly elections, it is also the duty of the genuine Left to be cautious of its independent position of upholding the long-term strategic interests of the working class and oppressed people. In brief, while upholding its independent ideological-political position against neoliberalism, fascism and war, and avoiding any political alliance with non-fascist ruling class parties or with depoliticised and neoliberal apologists of fascism, the revolutionary Left must use the votes and has to go for an uncompromising campaign appealing the people to appropriately cast their votes so as to ensure the defeat of BJP and allies of RSS fascism.

(Editorial, Red Star Monthly, April 2026 Issue)

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CPI (ML) Red Star Strongly Condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill

2026-03-24T08:38:50Z

CPI (ML) Red Star Strongly Condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill

Says It Is a Preparation for Brutal Repression of Minorities, Especially the Christian Community

Raipur, March 22, 2026: Comrade Saura, State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star, in a statement issued today, said that the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill 2026 is a preparation by the fascist Sangh–BJP government for brutal repression of minorities, especially the Christian community. This bill is a more draconian version of the law introduced during the Raman Singh government in 2006. It violates Article 25 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every person the freedom to practice religion according to their own will.

According to CPI (ML) Red Star, the bill has been deliberately introduced to target minorities, especially Christians and Muslims. This became evident when a tweet from the Chief Minister Sai/CMO’s official account spoke about making the state “free from ‘vidharmis’ (heretics).” Although the tweet was later deleted, the Chief Minister or his advisors must clarify what they mean by the term “vidharmi.” Does the state government have any data on how many people have been induced to convert since 2006? Or how many cases of forced conversion have been registered since the BJP government came to power in 2003?

Available information suggests that no such religious conversions are taking place anywhere in the state. Chhattisgarh is facing severe poverty and unemployment, while land, forests, and natural resources are being handed over to corporate houses with state patronage. As a result, attacks on poor working people are intensifying in the interest of corporate capital. Under the protection of senior BJP leaders, the state is increasingly turning into a hub of narcotics or an “opium state.” The hardships of Dalits, oppressed communities, women, Adivasis, minorities, and the working masses are continuously increasing.

To divert attention from these pressing issues, it has become necessary for the Sangh’s Manuvadi fascist forces to launch a new campaign of hatred against minorities—especially Christians and Muslims—similar to what is happening under the fascist double-engine government in Maharashtra. As part of this campaign, incidents such as the harassment of Christian nuns in Durg, attacks by saffron outfits like Bajrang Dal on Christian communities and their places of worship across the state, obstruction of burial rights of Christians in Kanker and the Bastar region, and even the forced exhumation of bodies and their reburial at unknown locations by the administration are taking place.

CPI (ML) Red Star has appealed to all democratic and progressive forces in the state to unite and strongly oppose this conspiratorial and divisive bill.

Comrade Saura
State Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

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mmediately Withdraw the Fascist Amendment Bill against Transgender Persons!

2026-03-17T04:44:29Z

The Modi government’s move to amend the 2019 Transgender Persons Act is perfectly in tune with the diktats of Manusmriti, the ideological guideline of RSS, that treats women and all oppressed as “subhuman”. In fact, the historic judgement of the Supreme Court, upholding the fundamental rights of transgenders with the stipulation that the “third gender” should be recognised on the basis of “self-identification” without requiring medical procedures, came on March 15, 2014, just two months before the ascent of the Modi regime on May 26, 2014. Later, it was under strong democratic pressure that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act came into being in 2019, in consonance with the 2014 ruling of the Supreme Court.

However, the fascist stranglehold over all aspects of Indian society has been steadily intensifying ever since the ascendance of the Modi regime. Not only Hindutva fascists, but fascists the world over, are opposed to transgender people because they view gender non-conformity as a threat to their rigid social order, which is based on traditional gender roles, and patriarchal social structures. Transgender identities defy the “biological essentialism” that fascist ideology uses to enforce strict societal control. Since fascism relies on a strict, traditional binary of male/female roles, transgender identities are considered as a threat to its “nationalism” (cultural nationalism in the case of RSS), as it disrupts the idea of a nation, by undermining traditional family structures which are essential for a strong nation. To be precise, all fascists, are opposed to a “gender theory” that encompasses feminism and transgender movements , and always brand them as “liberal”and “left” threats to the traditional social order. In other words, neoliberal fascists (neo-fascists) the world over, who are patriarchal to the core , target all transgender movements and frame LGBTQ+ rights as a threat to the fascist regime. Trumpism, the US version of fascism today, is a typical instance. Trump is notorious for using language that dehumanises transgender people depicting them as a social threat. He has already directed federal law enforcement agencies to investigate “radical gender ideology” stigmatizing it as a threat to US. Now, through the Transgender Amendment Act, the Modi regime, which is clinging on to the apron strings of Trump regarding policy decisions, is now copying the same for India also.

Now coming to the issue,the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 that was introduced in Lok Sabha on March 13, 2026 redefines the transgender Identity so as to deny or exclude such persons from the Constitutional protection by shifting them away from “self-perceived identity” toward a stricter, “medical-board-based” recognition process. This undermines both the spirit of the 2019 Act and the 2014 Supreme Court judgement that fully upheld the self-identification process and rejected the need of a medical board. Without going into the details, as all organisations and movements of the transgender people and oppressed peoples organisations including all well-meaning people have already stated, this fascist move to forcefully interfere in the Identity of transgender people is aimed at excluding and further marginalising them by denying them employment and welfare provisions. While the material objective of this far-right heinous move is denying welfare, dignity and employment, its ideological foundation is “gender essentialism” and patriarchy inherent in “cultural nationalism” and its approach towards denying the right of self-determination to transgender persons.

We appeal to all democratic and progressive forces to rise up against this reactionary move on the part of the fascist regime and stand in solidarity with the transgender persons at this critical juncture. All those who oppose fascism should come Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 which seeks to remove trans persons’ right resolutely demanding the Modi government to summarily withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 that deny them the right to self-determination and the fundamental rights to live with dignity.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI ( ML) Red Star

New Delhi
16.03.2026

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