Nobody has any doubt that the UPA II Government under the leadership of the three promoters/pensioners ( Dr.Manmohan Singh, Ahluwalia and Chidambaram), of Bretton Wood Institutions( World Bank, IMF and WTO)will continue aggressively with the anti-people anti-worker reforms. This has now been clearly spelt out by the present Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, in a special meeting called by the FM with the captains of Industries. The industrialists included Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani, Sunil Mittal, Anand Mahindra, Shashi Ruia, N.R.Narayana Murthy, Venu Srinivasa, G.V.K.Reddy and others.
The Finance Minister assured that the Banking Laws Amendment Bill, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill,Insurance Lawa Amendment Bill, Life Insurance Corporation Bill etc. will be passed in this Monsoon session itself. The progressive sections of the people and the working class organisations have been opposing these bills which are intended to take away the hard-won rights of the workers as also to utilse the pension corpus for the benefit of market which may shatter the pension of the retired workers. The FM never called or discussed with the representative of the workers on these bills which are completely against their interests. It has become very clear that whose interests are most important to the government. It is not the interest of the workers but the interests of the MNCs and big business.
A sustained and united struggle is required to correct the priorities of the government. Start preparations for the same now itself.