AGARTALA, July 17 (TIWN): As a part of General strike on September 2, water resource department of Agartala local committee and PWD Divsion –I local committee jointly organised a convention on Sunday at PWD Office located at Netaji Chowmuhani.

The Convention called upon the working class to observe country wide general strike on September 2, 2016 and start massive joint preparations at once to ensure that the participation of workers in the strike surpass even that in the general strike last year on the same day.

It called upon the working class to take the unity attained at the national level to the grass root and work place level and also extend the unity to all other toiling sections of the society like the peasants, agricultural workers etc.

The Convention also appeals to the peasants, agricultural labour and the rural and urban toiling people to support and participate in the strike on September 2, 2016.