Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha have jointly released the following press statement:
The Mazdoor Kisan Parliament held on March 9, 2026, at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, warned the Union Government to either give up its belligerent, authoritarian measures of imposing pro-corporate, pro-US policies and legislations or face a long haul of constant, pan-India, united struggles till all the crucial demands of the farmers and workers are achieved and all the anti-national and anti-people policies are reversed. The Kisan Mazdoor Sansad called upon farmers and workers to gear up for massive struggles and appealed for coordinated support of movements from all working and democratic sections of the people.
As part of preparing for massive constant struggles, the farmers and workers will observe March 23, 2026, the martyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as Anti-Imperialist Day against the India-US Free Trade Deal; April 1, 2026, will be observed as All India Black Day against the implementation of the four Labour Codes; and Mahapanchayats will be held in all states to declare anti-corporate mass struggles.
This Parliament organised in the National Capital parallel to the Parliament session by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions/Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations as well as the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) congratulated the working people for the magnificent All India General Strike on February 12, 2026, which issued a strong warning against the anti-worker, anti-farmer policies of the Modi Government.
All the speakers strongly condemned the shameful surrender of the Union Government to US pressures in accepting the unequal and exploitative Indo-US Interim Trade Framework and acting in tandem with corporate interests to enforce a series of anti-worker, anti-farmer measures.
The declaration stated that the USA is the biggest enemy of the world’s working people and the biggest threat to international institutional mechanisms for world peace. It made a resounding appeal to the Union Government to stop bending before US diktats on trade, and that it should condemn and demand the immediate cessation of the war on Iran, and ensure world peace. The Union Government has to secure the Indian workforce in the Gulf countries and provide special compensation to all agricultural exports to Gulf Countries ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers.
The Parliament strongly condemned the Union Government for not implementing the written assurances made to the SKM on December 9, 2021, in the context of the historic farmers' struggle that sacrificed the lives of 736 martyrs. The declaration demanded to enact laws in Parliament guaranteeing procurement of all crops based on MSP at C2+50% and modernisation of agriculture under producer cooperatives, agro-based industries under public sector and cooperative sector, end corporate takeover of agriculture, and share the surplus out of value addition with the primary producers.
The working people will launch constant united struggles if the government decides to go ahead with the implementation of the most regressive four Labour Codes which take away all the rights of the workers including the freedom of association, right to bargain, right to strike and right to an eight-hour workday.
The Parliament demanded that the Government of India must reject the Indo-US Interim Framework on Trade Deal, withdraw the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, the Seed Bill 2025, repeal the VB GRAMG Act and restore MGNREGA, and enrich it with 200 days’ work and Rs 700 as daily wage.
The Parliament condemned the Union Government for depriving the states of financial resources, centralising all powers, and demanded restoring the taxation powers of the states through amending the GST Act 2017 and provide 60 per cent share to states instead of the current 33 per cent of the divisible pool (including cess and surcharges).
The Parliament was presided over by a panel consisting of Shahnaz Rafique INTUC, Mukesh Kashyap AITUC, Narayan Singh HMS, A R Sindhu CITU, R K Sharma AIUTUC, Lata SEWA, Raghav Singh AICCTU, Gajraj Singh UTUC, (all representing CTUs), and P Krishnaprasad AIKS, Yudhvir Singh BKU-Tikait, Rajan Kshirsagar AIKS-AB, Hansraj Rana AIKKMS, Dharampal Singh AIKKMS, Satish Azad KKU, Prem Singh Gehlawat AIKM, Joginder Singh Nain BKU-Nain, and Sunil, Tarai Kisan Samiti (all representing SKM).
The speakers included Ashok Dhawale AIKS, Yudhvir Singh BKU-Tikait, Revula Venkaiah AIKS AB, Satyavan AIKKMS, Ashish Mittal AIKMS, Shashikant KKU, Dr Sunilam KSS, Purushottam Sharma AIKM, Joginder Nain BKU Nain, Manish Bharti JKA, and Karnail Singh Ikolaha AISKS (all from SKM) and Ashok Singh INTUC, Amarjeet Kaur AITUC, H C Tyagi HMS, Sudip Dutta CITU, Rajender Singh AIUTUC, Lata SEWA, Rajiv Dimri AICCTU and Shatrujeet UTUC (all from CTUs).
