In prioritising “labour concerns” over “politics”, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed organisation Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has said it will build solidarity across all trade unions, including those affiliated with the Left parties. The BMS will carry a protest march to Parliament on November 17 against the “anti-labour policies of Narendra Modi government”.

Speaking to News18 from Nagpur, BMS general secretary Vrijesh Upadhyay said, “The concerns of labour reforms are common to all of us, so it does not matter who is backed by the Left and who is backed by the Right…. We will have activists from across affiliations in march to Parliament.”

BMS said invitation for the protest in Delhi, just ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament, will be sent to all central trade unions like All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Labour Progressive Federation (LPF), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), etc.