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  • Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

    Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

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    SRINAGAR: Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), took to the streets on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to lead a protest on the occasion of International Labour Day. Tarigami’s demonstration called for the implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in its true spirit while also demanding the abolition of the contractual system of employment.

    According to Tarigami, workers employed on a contractual or daily wage basis in the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the National Health Mission were being denied their right to basic minimum wages. He stated that “Our demand is that minimum fixed wages be given to every worker as set by the labour conference.”

    After leading the protest at Residency Road, Tarigami spoke with reporters, reiterating his stance and emphasizing the importance of fair wages for all workers. He said, “Our demand is to implement the Minimum Wages Act in letter and spirit, so that the contractual system of employment is abolished, and every worker gets the minimum fixed wages as set by the labour conference.”

    Tarigami also drew attention to the long history of struggles against labour exploitation in Kashmir, pointing out that “In Zaldagar Kashmir, labourers had protested for their rights even before the May Day protests in Chicago in 1886. Workers here had fought against the taxes imposed by the then government.”

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Tarigami Visits Budgam, Offers Condolences To Bereaved Family

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    SRINAGAR:  Senior CPI (M) leader and former MLA Kulgam, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Thursday visited the family of a 30-year-old lady who was brutally murdered by a man a few days ago, in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

    The CPI (M) leader visited the victim’s residence and offered condolences to the grief-stricken family

    While condemning this inhuman act, the CPI (M) leader said such brutal acts in a civilized society are “unprecedented” as well as “alarming”. He urged police to ensure fast track investigation into the murder.

    He urged upon healthier voices to come forward and rake up the matter to ensure justice to the family. “Credible voices should come forward and flag their voice for fast track proceedings of the case and exemplary punishment to the killer,” he said.

    Tarigami said that law should ensure strict punishment to the killer so that such incidents will not happen in the future.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Levying Property Tax Arbitrary, Undemocratic: Tarigami

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    SRINAGAR: Former legislator and CPI( M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami has termed the levying of property tax in Jammu and Kashmir as “arbitrary and undemocratic”.

    In a statement CPI(M) leader Tarigami said that the process of collecting tax and deciding the values of the tax is the sole prerogative of the elected institutions — the legislature to frame laws and the municipal councils/corporations to decide the forms and different values according to their objective realities.

    “Levying property tax in absence of an elected government is quite unconstitutional. Even the elected municipal bodies were not consulted,” he said in a statement.

    He added that the most objectionable part of the notification is the decision of deciding the values from the centre.

    “These are the towns and cities to decide the values and not the centre, as mandated by the 74th Constitutional Amendment. The notification is ultra vires to  the constitutional mandate,” Tarigami said, adding that the locking period of three years is also arbitrary.

    “The cities must be given the prerogative to decide when they want to change their values and there should not be any particular locking period,” he said.

    He demanded the immediate withdrawal of the notification.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )