 17th Conference of CITU, Centre of Indian Trade Union, a central trade union representing more than 6 million workers in India across the sector. That conference is now taking place in the city of Bengaluru from 18 January onwards and it will continue till 22 January. This conference is the usual constitutional obligation of CITU to hold the conference every three years to renew its leadership and also to review its activities, challenges and then decides reorient its future course of action. All these things basic policy decision and organizational decision are taken from this conference. That is usually the purpose of this conference. Around 1500 delegates across the sector from all the states across the sector both organized and unorganized sector are taking part in this conference. Now the martyrs resolution paying homage to the martyrs. This conference also pay homage to all those who died of hunger in India and world war in this crisis-ridden capitalist world. I place this resolution for your approval. 17th Conference of CITU is taking place now in a very altogether in a new challenging situation not only before the working class but the entire country's common people concern. We are in the face of a very barbaric onslaught by an anti-people, anti-worker, anti-national destructive governance policy regime led by this BJP government with the active support of the entire corporate class and also the corporate control media. They are utilizing their economic management is going into such a situation which set in motion a faster process of properization of the working people who are actually creating values, creating wealth for the society. And during the same time an obscene inequality in the wealth generation in favor of the handful of corporate classes generally. Altogether it represents according to CITU a total fraud and perversion on the economic process and that is the hallmark of the economic management in BJP's rule. At the same time it has got its reflection in the political situation and the very crisis that is emanating out of this perverted economic management. That is also getting reflected in the political governance reflecting in more undemocratic authoritarian onslaught on the democratic right, right to dissent, right to oppose and also the collective right of the people to collectively assert. That is coming up one after another during the last four years since our 16th conference that period reflects that. That period also reflects the give us pandemic lockdown period which expose the how barbaric a corporate control government can become to even to make the sufferings of the people a means for valgar wealth accumulation during the same period. The period when country suffered a setback in negative GDP. Then the same year the India's corporate class has increased wealth more than 100 percent. Such savage barbarism is the reflection of the present. So it is a very big challenge before the working class and in order to facilitate that process the government is going ahead in restructuring the employment relations, making more fragile the employment rights of the workers. And on the other hand eliminating all right trade union rights by a in the process of notifying enacting the labor court by repelling 29 established labor laws. And now the latest stage is now they are whatever law remains if corporate violates. Okay some penalty can be charged but that violation will be is going to be decriminalized. That will not attract criminal action. As such the government is going ahead in legalizing the loot on the public wealth by way of very liberal rewriting of corporate loans from the banks. And at the same time through the IBC, Insolvency Bankruptcy Procedure to legalize the default and forcing the banks to accept the sacrifice of their loan portfolios to the tune of 64 to 70 percent. So yet in this whole perverse process and its economic political reflection another important aspect which the conference is dealing with is that during this situation the government as a part of its integral comprehensive project they are cultivating poisons in the society seeking to communally polarize people and bring about other forms, formats of polarization in the name of caste, creeds, regionalism, all kinds of to keep the people themselves busy in confronting each other and the major crime that is being committed on the economy and the society will be will go out of their views. This is the conspiracy and this conspiracy is the integral part of their economic management and political policy. So the trade union work here this conference wants to develop a comprehensive understanding on that direction and prepare the working class movement for a much more aggressive offensive combat because that is the need of the hour if we want not only to save the workers right but also to save the country because this is as well a conspiracy against the country's self reliance whatever the country has achieved in 75 years that is the conspiracy against it. Even ILO has been forced to say that the workers have to struggle for increase in their real wages because only increase in the real wages will help in growth of the economy in increasing the jobs in addressing the issue of unemployment and also by growth by providing employment that the probability of recession and the depth of the recession also can come down. So that is the solution to address this recession and the slowdown of the growth that is what the ILO recommends. But what are the countries in different capitalist countries doing? The most of the countries in the capitalist world they are not addressing the concerns of the workers. It is not the way that they are following to increase the wages or increase the conditions improve the conditions of the workers. In most of the capitalist countries what we see is that to address this more attacks are coming over the workers. So this what we need to understand is that the situation where all over the world the workers wages are declining, workers are coming into struggles and the governments are not protecting the interests of the workers but they are trying to further attack the living conditions of the workers for the benefit of the workers. This entire thing shows that the system itself is in crisis. The entire capitalist system, the neoliberal system is in crisis. It is not able to provide any relief to the workers. So what we understand for the present situation? There are certain unique features. On the one hand we see that the new norm today is for the workers to come out into larger and protracted struggles facing the repression by the employers, victimization and also by the governments and the state machinery like we are seeing in our own country. How? The inequalities are increasing despite the poor the workers producing the wealth of this country. So latest Oxfam report is there. The world inequality report is there. How the richest are corning even in our country the latest report says that 40% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population and the lower half of population has only 3% of wealth. So that is how the inequalities are growing. Struggles are there increasingly but at the same time unless the struggles are led with a proper ideological, political perspective for an alternative for the system the right wing is utilizing the same discontent among the people and it is trying to project itself as anti-establishment and utilizing that anti-establishment sentiment of the people it is coming to power and implementing the same policies and because of this the ruling classes the capitalist class is supporting the right wing in many countries. Not only in our country in many countries it is with the support of these ruling classes the capitalist class that the right wing is coming into power or gaining influence. So this is when we are struggling on the demands of the workers. The lessons we have to draw today is that we have also to struggle against the system to struggle against the right wing ideology and for an alternative. Broadly we see the same situation in our country where the BJP led government is implementing neoliberal policies with more aggressiveness and also on the other hand trying to suppress the rights of the people using all the entire state machinery, the different laws, the CBI, etc., etc. and also through its divisive machinations by RSS. Today we have to be extra careful we will be discussing communalism, the danger of communalism in a commission paper also but at the same time when we are fighting against the neoliberal policies we have also have to create the danger of these communal divisive forces because the workers are also being influenced more and more workers are being influenced by the RSS and its ideology. Dear comrades, delegates of the C217th All India Conference, on behalf of more than 105 million members of the World Federation of Trade Unions from 133 countries from all corners of the earth, I convey to you and through you to the workers of India militant class greetings. First of all I would like to thank for the invitation and the possibility to attend the 17th National Conference of C2. Today we are probably after you call the trade unions all over the world to protect the autonomy of their class orientation. away from bureaucracy, corruption, and manipulation by the capital and employers. The weapon of the working class is solidarity and internationalism for the workers who resist who do not compromise with oppression, discrimination වවහ්තස වහහ්තස සහහං මතුදියය, වන්ලාසාසියකා.