Kollam, Feb. 11 -- Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and working president of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Binoy Viswam, announced his full support for the upcoming nationwide farmers' strike on February 12, describing it as a movement to protect the basic rights of the people.

CPI leader, Binoy Viswam, said, "The strike organised by the Kisan organisations will be a people's initiative to protect basic rights...The strike will be a complete success. The primary slogan raised by farmers and trade unions is the withdrawal of the labour codes, which are not labour codes. It should be named as anti-labour codes. Along with that, the workers and the peasantry of the country, along with the people of India, raise a slogan to re...