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In pursuance of the declaration adopted by trade unions INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC in September last year, they declared a nation-wide stroke on January 08, 2020. It was expected that around 25 crore people will join the strike in different parts of the country. The main reason behind a step as severe as a nation-wide strike was to express dissatisfaction towards what are alleged to be ‘anti-people’ policies by the ruling party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The participation in the strike was earlier limited to ten major central trade unions [CTUs] of the country but later spread across involving many sectoral independent federations and associations.

The administration finally had to bow to the students who had been protesting for several days against various issues, including fee hike at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The increased hostel fees have been withdrawn during the official council meeting on the university campus on Wednesday.