BMS calls Budget 2018 'anti-labour'; to boycott Modi's speech at ILC

The BMS has demanded the Union government to review the Union Budget 2018-19 by incorporating its demands

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh has threatened to boycott the Indian Labour Conference (ILC), saying their demands were not met in the Union Budget 2018-19. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating the conference after a gap of three years. 

Other trade unions are also contemplating a similar move after the Union labour and employment ministry did not invite the Congress-affiliated Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) for the ILC — considered the highest tripartite forum of the country. 

At the meeting of its executive committee on Thursday in Gujarat, the BMS decided it would boycott the conference if its