Countrywide strike today

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAY 10. Workers owing allegiance to major Left and centrist trade unions are all set to respond to the call for a countrywide general strike tomorrow given by the National Platform of Mass Organisations (NPMO).

Dubbed as the ``biggest strike ever in the recent past'', the NPMO is confident of a massive response from people from all walks of life to protest the ``retrograde economic, industrial and anti-poor policies of the NDA Government''.

Significantly, 18 non-Congress leaders and members of Opposition parties in Parliament, who convened a special meeting here today, have also decided to extend their support to the mass action by sitting on a dharna outside the main gate of Parliament tomorrow morning and subsequently ``raising the burning issue in an appropriate manner during the day in both the Houses.''

It is being claimed that those who go on tomorrow's token strike include industrial workers, employed in banking, insurance, railways and postal sector, Central Secretariat and allied offices employees, several mass organisations of peasants, agricultural workers, students, youth and women, non-affiliated unions and labour and democratic organisations and civilians in defence services.

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