Ramaswami: Within the serious constraints of the lockdown the working class in the country has made it clear they were not going to take these attacks lying down. In almost all the states wherever these changes were being carried out or being considered, in Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar etc., protests were held in front of the labour commissioners’ officers, work places, or houses etc., by CITU independently or jointly along with other trade unions. On May 14, the central trade unions in the joint trade union platform discussed online about the future course of action to resist these measures. The secretariat meeting of CITU scheduled to be held online on May 15 will finalise its campaign and struggle programmes on the basis of the call of its 16th conference ‘to defy and resist’ anti-worker policies of the government.