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India’s World - Pakistani Hindu migrants in India
Rajya Sabha TV - April 22, 2013

Guests: Rajiv Dogra (Former Diplomat) ; Chinmaya R Gharekhan (Former ambassador to UN) ; Dilip Simeon (Historian)
Anchor: Bharat Bhushan

BD labour used to be fairly cheap and docile in earlier decades. but over the past decade, it has become more vocal, partly because their numbers have risen, and partly because their opportunities have become brighter elsewhere.

On the 1st of May 1990, 23 years ago, poor peasants and workers collected at Patia ka Chowda , Bhim, Rajsamand District- after a year of deliberations about the need to organize and struggle- to form the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) . This day has become an important day for workers in this part of Rajasthan. We come every year to express our solidarity and take a pledge to work together to struggle for common, stated concerns.

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