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The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (
translation
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: ''Indian Workers' Union'') is a trade union in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. It was founded by
Dattopant Thengadi
Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi, (Marathi: दत्तोपंत ठेंगडी, 1920–2004) was an Indian Hindu Ideologue, trade union leader and founder of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan ...
on 23 July 1955.
The BMS itself claims to have more than 10 million members. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, the BMS had a membership of 6,215,797 in 2002. The BMS is not affiliated to any International Trade Union Confederation. It is the labour wing of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( ; , , ) is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation. The RSS is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (Hindi for "Sangh family ...
and forms part of the
Sangh Parivar
The Sangh Parivar (translation: "Family of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh" or the "RSS family") refers, as an umbrella term, to the collection of Hindu nationalist organisations spawned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which r ...
.
BMS protested against the anti-labour policies of the
Narasimha Rao Government of the
Congress
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, leftists supported
Deve Gowda Government and
Gujral Government. During the tenure of the
NDA Government also which had “friends” of BMS in it, BMS had to oppose the anti-labour policies. Now in
Modi Government tenure, called for nationwide movement on 10 June 2020 to protest privatization in PSUs.
External links
BMS websiteBTEU BSNL (BMS Affiliated Union website in Telecom Sector)
References
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Trade unions in India
Hindu organizations
Trade unions established in 1955
Sangh Parivar
1955 establishments in India