MAGNIFICENT STRIKE BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORK Manishinath Bhawan, A/2/95 Rajouri Garden New Delhi. 110 027 Date: 28th February 2012 PRESS STATEMENT The General Strike of Indian working class for which the call was given by the Central Trade Unions and endorsed by all the Federations and the Central and State Govt. Employees elicited the largest participation today. The increased participation of workers in the industrial action was indicative of the growing realization of the need to struggle against the present economic policies of the Govt. of India. The Central Govt. employees throughout the country responded to the call admirably in as much as the strike was almost total in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Assam, Mecoalaya, Tripura, Manipur and about 80% in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and partial in Delhi, Punjab...