New Delhi, July 8 -- More than 250 million workers from sectors such as banking, insurance, postal services, mining, and construction are expected to take part in a nationwide general strike or 'Bharat Bandh' on Wednesday. The strike has been called to protest against what they describe as the government's "anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-national pro-corporate policies", according to a forum of central trade unions and their allies.

In a statement, the forum of ten unions urged people to make "the nationwide general strike a grand success" and said that unions from both the formal and informal or unorganised sectors have been actively preparing for the strike.

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