All India Trade Union Congress General Secretary Amarjeet Kaur told PTI that the general strike started across the country on Wednesday morning and she has received reports and pictures of the agitation from states, including West Bengal, Kerala, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Bihar.
She said banking, postal, and electricity services will be affected by the strike.
She said copper and coal mining will be hit, while the impact will also be felt on public transport in several states.
She further said the farmers’ unions in Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan will also hold protest in their areas.
The unions’ demands include doing away with the four labour codes, contractualisation, privatisation of PSUs, increasing minimum wages to Rs 26,000 per month, as well as the demands of farmer organisations for minimum support price for crops based on Swaminathan commission’s formula of C2 plus 50 per cent, and loan waiver for farmers. PTI KKS TRB