This strike is being organized by the platform of 10 central labor organizations and their affiliate organizations. Its purpose is to protest against the anti-labor, anti-farmer and anti-national policies of the central government.

Which services will be affected?

Many essential services of the country may be affected due to the strike:

• Work at bank and insurance offices disrupted
• Delay in postal services
• Production halted in coal mining and steel industry
• Operations in state transport and factories affected
• Work on construction and infrastructure projects slows down
• Harbhajan Singh Sidhu of Hind Mazdoor Sabha warned that this strike could badly affect the normal services across the country.

Who is supporting the strike?

• According to Amarjit Kaur of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), more than 25 crore workers can join this strike.
• Employees of NMDC Limited, other mineral and steel companies
• Employees of State Government Departments and Public Sector Undertakings
• United Kisan Morcha and agricultural labor organizations have also given support.

Main demands of the trade unions

Labour organisations say that they had submitted a 17-point memorandum of demands to the government last year, the main demands of which are:

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Dalit organizations have opened a front against the Supreme Court decision on reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A Bharat Bandh has been announced on 21 August for this. The Bharat Bandh has also got the support of the Bahujan Samaj Party. For this, the party has asked small and big workers to be a part of ‘Bharat Bandh’. Bharat Bandh is also trending on social media. Let us tell you what is the whole matter due to which a call for Bharat Bandh has been given.

Which decision of the Supreme Court is being opposed

On August 1, the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court gave a major decision on reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Supreme Court said that the states have the right to create quota within quota for reservation, that is, the state governments can create sub-categories for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories. Along with this, the Supreme Court also said that the principle of creamy layer applies to Scheduled Castes in the same way as it applies to OBCs. Many leaders including BSP supremo Mayawati are opposing this decision of the court.

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What is quota within quota?

Quota within quota means implementing a separate reservation system within the already allocated percentage of reservation, so that the benefit of reservation reaches the needy who are often neglected. Let us tell you that the decision given by the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court in the case of EV Chinnaiya vs Andhra Pradesh Government in 2004 was completely opposite to this. Then the Supreme Court had said that the state governments cannot create sub-categories of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for reservation in jobs. With this decision, the Supreme Court has overturned its old decision of 2004.

Akash Anand wrote this on X

This decision of Bharat Bandh has also got the support of BSP. BSP’s National Coordinator Akash Anand has written on X that there is a lot of anger in the SC/ST community against the Supreme Court’s decision on reservation. Our community has called for Bharat Bandh on 21 August in protest against the court’s decision. Our society is a peace loving society. We support everyone. Our society participates in everyone’s happiness and sorrow, but today our freedom is being attacked. On 21 August, we have to give a befitting reply to this in a peaceful manner.

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