Trade Union Strike: Trade unions and banks will go on strike today, postal and rail services will also be affected; warning of road blockage..

Employees affiliated with central and regional trade unions will go on strike across the country on Wednesday. This may disrupt banking, postal, and other services. They are going on strike in protest against the new labor code and privatization, and are demanding a minimum wage of Rs 26 thousand and the old pension scheme.

A trade union official said that the strike is expected to disrupt services in sectors like banking, insurance, postal, coal mining, highways, and construction. Central trade unions like CITU, INTUC and AITUC are insisting on the demands of farmers' organizations to abolish four labor codes, contractualization and privatization of PSUs, increase in minimum wage to Rs 26 thousand per month, minimum support price (MSP) for crops based on Swaminathan Commission's C2 plus 50 percent formula and loan waiver.

Regional organizations like Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and NREGA Sangharsh Morcha have extended their support to the nationwide strike. However, RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) will not participate in the strike. BMS is calling it a politically motivated protest.

Will block roads: CITU

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) national secretary AR Sindhu said protests will be held in industrial areas. Not all unorganised sector workers will be able to join the protest, but they will also be organised, and roads will be blocked. Trains will also be stopped.

Torch procession taken out in Ranchi.

A joint platform of trade unions and leftist parties in Jharkhand's capital, Ranchi on Wednesday took out a torch procession to express solidarity with the nationwide movement demanding repeal of four labour codes. The procession organised on Tuesday evening started from Sainik Market and ended at Albert Ekka Chowk. Here the protesters raised slogans against the central government and accused it of adopting anti-labour policies. Ashok Yadav of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) said, we organised a torch procession in support of the 17-point demands. CPI state secretary Mahendra Pathak said that a two-hour chakka jam would be held.

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