CITU leading protests as part of the nationwide movement against the anti-people policies of the Union government in Krishnagiri on Monday.
| Photo Credit: BASHKARAN N.
The prison filling movement, led collectively by all central trade unions of the opposition parties, called attention to the ‘failed’ economic, agricultural, and labour policies of the BJP-led Union government. The protest witnessed demonstrators courting arrests in Krishnagiri on Monday (August 10, 2026).The nationwide protests was called jointly by all Central Trade Unions, including the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), LPF, CITU, AITUC, and INTUC, foregrounding the demand for the immediate revocation of the four new labour codes that have come to replace the labour legislations, and other agricultural and economic grievances. The protesters demanded basic minimum support price for agricultural produce, immediate halt to the privatisation of the power sector, and raising the minimum wages to ₹42,000.They also sought for increasing the number of wage days to 200 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and a guaranteed daily wages of ₹700 under the programme.The protesting Unions, calling the Free Trade Agreements FTAs) signed by the government ‘anti-national’ also demanded that the government immediately revoke the FTAs signed with the U.S. and the European countries.The protesters slammed the government divesting its interests in Public Sector Undertakings and called for an immediate rollback of the disinvestment policy, a write-off of farm loans, and reversal to the old pension scheme. They also demanded that the government fix the loopholes in the entrance examination system and put an end to these exams, which were allegedly rife with corruption. Published - August 10, 2026 07:34 pm IST
