Bharat bandh: Talks with ministers collapse

February 19, 2013 00:10

Eleven Central trade unions tonight stuck to their call for a two-day nation-wide strike from Wednesday after talks with senior ministers convened at the instance of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed.

Rejecting the prime minister's appeal yesterday to the unions to call of the stir, the trade unions said the panel of ministers failed to give then any concrete proposal and that not even one of their demands were accepted. "The strike is on... They are only asking for time.

They say they will study the demand and will give proper reply or take necessary action later on... We said it is not possible, there should be some concrete decision over demands of the workers," INTUC President G Sanjeeva Reddy told reporters.

INTUC is affiliated to the Congress. AITUC General Secretary Gurudas Dasgupta also endorsed Reddy's views. The two-hour long meeting was attended by representatives of all the 11 trade unions.

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