The National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the International Workers Day as a gazetted holiday across the country as a befitting tribute to the May Day martyrs.
"We urge the prime minister to declare May Day as a gazetted holiday throughout the country under the Negotiable Instrument Act as a befitting tribute to the May Day martyrs and recognising the valuable contribution of the working class in the all-round development of the country," NMC President Subash Shastri said in a memorandum to the prime minister.
He said because of the May Day martyrs, the working class got their rights across the world and India being the largest and most vibrant democracy and the frontline welfare state should also declare May 1 as gazetted holiday.
This will be a great gesture and will fulfill the most genuine and long-pending demands of the working class, Shastri said and hoped that the NDA government at the Centre will concede the long-pending demand of working class and declare the May Day as a national holiday.
He also appealed to the prime minister to direct the Vice Chairman of Niti Ayog, Arvind Panigraian, to earmark Rs 9,000 crore as special fund at the Jammu and Kashmir government's disposal to ward off likely effect of the implementation of recommendations of seventh pay commission arrears along with incorporating financial implications of regularisation of 61,000 daily-rated workers.
The NMC President reminded the top leadership of the NDA government to fulfill its election promises and adopt a realistic approach to the solution of salaried/working classes problems of the country.
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