It seems that the Congress / UPA government is in a move to split the INTUC. A statement has come in the newspapers by one Mr. Choudhary,  that Dr. Sanjeeva Reddy, been removed from the post of President of INTUC and that  the former has been elected in his place. It is also stated that this is being done in view of the 28th February Strike and the pivotal role of Sanjeeva Reddy in giving call for the strike which is against the UPA government.

The Congress, as the ruling party, has always been against the struggles of the working class. During the independence struggle, till 1947, there was only one central trade union in the country viz. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the leaders of which included Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, V.V.Giri and other Congress leaders along with Comrades S.A.Dange, B.T.Ranadive and other communist leaders. But on the eve of the Independence, the Congress split AITUC and formed its own TU, the INTUC to support the government.

Is this going to be repeated because Dr. Sanjeeva Reddy has stood with the main stream of the working class? Till further details are known, nothing could be forecasted. However, it is clear that any such move of disruption of trade union unity should be strongly opposed and defeated.