Transport strike 'massive', says CPI-M

5 Dariya News

New Delhi 30-Apr-2015

The CPI-M said on Thursday that the nationwide strike by road transport workers was "successful and massive" and involved some 20 million employees."Workers belonging to the public transport, private buses, auto-rickshaws, taxis and trucks numbering two crore workers participated in the strike," the Communist Party of India-Marxist said in a statement."The workers were protesting against the Road Transport Safety Bill 2015, the passage of which would enable the privatization of the transport sector, to the detriment of the state-owned transport corporations and other bus operators," it said. "Some of the provisions provide harsh penalties to the drivers and can be liable to misuse," it added.The CPI-M urged the government to discuss the provisions of the bill with representatives of the transport sector "instead of trying to push through the bill in parliament".