Jaipur, April 30 -- The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) on Wednesday claimed that May Day, celebrated as International Labour Day in many countries, including India, is not relevant to the Indian labor movement.
CV Rajesh, Area Organizing Secretary (West and Northwest Region) of BMS, said the day has its roots in a global organisation of socialists and communists, but Indian laboir leaders, including Mahatma Ayyankali, Narayan Gurudev, and Babasaheb Ambedkar, never accepted May Day as Labour Day.
Rajesh said trade unions were an essential part of the industrial revolution, and while the modern trade union movement began in England, India's labour movement was driven by social activists, reformers, and nationalists fighting for worker...