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On 19 May 2013 22:44, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Strongly condemn police action and endorse your statement. > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone > ------------------------------ > *From: * Ranjana <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Sun, 19 May 2013 17:59:45 +0100 (BST) > *To: *Saheli Women<[email protected]>; kalpana Mehta< > [email protected]>; rinchin1<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *[humanrights-movement:6844] JOINT Statement Reporting Police > Brutality Against Maruti Suzuki Workers > > > > --- On *Sun, 19/5/13, PUDR Delhi <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: PUDR Delhi <[email protected]> > Subject: [pudr-info] Stop the Police Brutality Against Maruti Suzuki > Workers > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 19 May, 2013, 22:00 > > *Joint Press Statement* > > *Kaithal* > > *19 May 2013:* > > * * > > * * > > *Stop the Police Brutality Against Maruti Suzuki Workers* > > > > The Haryana Government yet again in a brazen and outright cowardly manner > has sought to protect the interest of capital and particularly > the management of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd by refusing to allow the > victimised workers and their families to undertake a peaceful demonstration > planned for today which was expected to draw in ten thousand people from > across the state. > > A short while ago, police lathicharged a peaceful demonstration of workers > families outside the residence of State Industry Minister Randeep Singh > Surjewala. Scores have been hurt in the lathicharge and the demonstrators > are being arrested. > > The Haryana Government, on the eve of this peaceful protest at Kaithal, > imposed IPC Section 144 in the town and arrested close to 100 workers and > their family members from the dharna site at the Kaithal Mini Secretariat > at 11:30 pm last night. Several more were picked up from the entry points > to the town including the bus terminus this morning. The workers and their > family members have been sitting on an entirely peaceful dharna at the Mini > Secretariat from 28 April 2013 demanding release of the 147 workers in > Gurgaon Jail and reinstatement of the workers, both permanent and contract, > terminated without enquiry following the 18 July incident. Despite the > heavy police mobilisation and barricades at entry points of the town, > thousands of people from across Haryana have been pouring into the city to > gherao the State Industries Minister, Randeep Singh Surjewala at his > residence. Wives, mothers and sisters of workers are present in large > numbers at this demonstration demanding a just inquiry and an end to the > state effort at criminalisation of the workers. > > Officers at Kaithal Civil Lines Police Station and at the Office of the > Superintendent of Police refused to provide copy of the FIR or even provide > details about the arrests since last night to us or even to the advocate of > the workers and their families. They even refused to mention under what > charges the arrests had been made and where the workers and others who were > arrested were detained. > > There were two other large demonstrations in Kaithal today - one to > celebrate Parshuram Jayanti organised by the Brahmin Samaj addressed by the > Haryana Industries Minister, Surjewala and another of the Haryana Janhit > Congress. So, the imposition of Section 144 IPC was clearly aimed at > denying the Maruti Suzuki workers and their families their democratic right > to peaceful protest. The large police mobilisation with tear gas and water > cannons was only aimed at the Maruti Suzuki workers. > > 84 Sarpanches from across Haryana had extended their support to the Maruti > Suzuki workers struggle at the last demonstration of the workers at Kaithal > on 8 May 2013. The Haryana Government has stopped the funds to these > Panchayats. Thus it is using both brute force and its fiscal powers to > obliterate the struggle of the workers and put down the solidarity and > support mobilised by the Sarpanches across the state. Elected > representatives of the people are refusing to talk to citizens in their > attempt to protect the interest of capital. > > We continue to stand in solidarity with the struggle of the members of > Maruti Suzuki Workers Union and their demand for a fair inquiry, release of > the arrested workers and reinstatement of the workers terminated after > the 18 July 2012 incident. This struggle against capital and the complicit > state is a critical turning point in upholding democratic rights of the > working class. > > > We support the demands of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union: > > 1. The Haryana Government must immediately stop the assault on the workers > of Maruti -Suzuki. > > 2. The Haryana Government must immediately order an enquiry into the > events at Kaithal in the last 24 hours. > > 3. Government of Haryana should withdraw all charges and release all > Maruti Suzuki workers and their family members arrested at Kaithal in the > last 24 hours. > > 4. Government of Haryana should not oppose the bail application of the 147 > workers in Gurgaon jail following the 18 July incident. > > 5. MSIL must reinstate all permanent workers who were summarily dismissed > after the 18 July incident and regularise all contract workers who were on > the rolls of the Company on 18 July 2012. > > 6. MSIL must negotiate in good faith with the MSWU. > > > *Pritpal > Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR), Punjab* > > *Ramesh > People's Union of Civil Rights (PUCR), Kaithal, Haryana* > > *Kulbir Singh and Ranjana Padhi* > > *Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi* > > *Gautam Mody* > > *New Trade Union Initiative* > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Pudr-info mailing list > [email protected]<http://uk.mc1331.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > http://mail.pudr.org/mailman/listinfo/pudr-info_pudr.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist Hey folks, coined this term ” Kracktivism “, check out my blog http://kractivist.wordpress.com/Kracktivism Blog for girl child- http://fassmumbai.wordpress.com/ Blog for Kashmir -http://kashmirsolidaritymumbai.wordpress.com/ Blog for KKM defence Committee- http://kabirkalamanch.wordpress.com https://twitter.com/#!/Kracktivist https://www.facebook.com/kamayani *I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal....... 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