Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Indian Workers Union), is the largest central trade union organization in India. It was founded by Dattopantji Thengdi on July 23, 1955, which also happens to the birthday of LokamanyaBal Gangadhar Tilak. Image File history File links BMS_logo. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New Delhi (Hindi: , Punjabi: , Urdu: ‎) is an urban area within the metropolis of Delhi, and the capital city of the Republic of India, as well as the seat of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. ... Image File history File links Bmssticker. ... Image File history File links Bmssticker. ... A Trade Union (Labour union) ... is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 - 1920), was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. ...
BMS itself claims to have over 8.3 million members. At present it is estimated around 5860 unions are affiliated to BMS, with a membership of around 7 639 000. It can also be noted that BMS is not affiliated to any International Trade Union Confederation.
For individual unions affiliated to BMS, see BMS-affiliated unions.
Girish Awasthi is the current president of the organizaton, and Uday Rao Patwardhan its General Secretary.
BharatiyaMazdoorSangh chief Dattopant Thengdi addresses a rally against the NDA government's economic policies in New Delhi in April 2001.
This is one of the key questions that have come to the fore in the wake of the acrimonious debate among the various outfits of the Hindutva combine about the pros and cons of L.K. Advani's Pakistan visit and the pronouncements he made in that country.
Throughout the six years that the party was in power, the Sangh Parivar raised "multispeak" to the level of strategy and sought to occupy the spaces of both the ruling power and the Opposition.
The truce between the government and the RSS-affiliated organisation seems to have conclusively ended with three important constituents of the Sangh Parivar - the BharatiyaMazdoorSangh, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch - coming together to attack the Centre's economic policies after a gap of two years.
What is significant is the Swadeshi Jagran Manch's criticism of the government is being supported by the BharatiyaMazdoorSangh, the trade union wing of the RSS, and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, a Sangh-affiliate for farmers.
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh president Kunwarji Bhai Jadhav said Vajpayee had been following in the footsteps of P V Narasimha Rao.
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