Fight BJP Call from mass rally of North 24 Parganas at Calcutta Dunlop Management politics keeps factory shut

The CITU has again been vindicated. The Dunlop authorities have announced, only hours before the Sahagunge factory was to reopen after two long years, that it would not do so and that the onus for this lay with the CITU which had refused to sign on the copy of the the minutes of the meeting the labour unions had with the Dunlop management on February 6.

Mazumder has said that the Dunlop authorities were not serious about reopening the factory right from the beginning and the move was just to settle in once the locks were removed and then make a plea of inability to run the factory, sell off the assets and then decampt. With promoter Manu Chhabria away in Dubai and the president of Dunlop M.D.Shukla making a sudden trip to Dubai as late as on Saturday, the gameplan had been made obvious. Mazumder said that the decision not to reopen the factory was thus no major surprise for him as this had been expected. The CITU leader also said that the mere pumping in of Rs 20 crores to reopen a factory as big as Dunlop smacked of non-seriousness on the part of the management.