By IANS Oct 10, 2019 1:00:57 PM IST (Updated)
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) offshoot Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) announced a 10-day nationwide protest against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the 16-country Free Trade Agreement (FTA), from October 10-20 in all the district centres, and also announced that it will be submitting a memorandum to prime minister through district magistrate in each district.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) offshoot Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) announced a 10-day nationwide protest against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the 16-country Free Trade Agreement (FTA), from October 10-20 in all the district centres, and also announced that it will be submitting a memorandum to prime minister through district magistrate in each district.
RCEP is a mega free trade agreement of 10 ASEAN countries with their six FTA partners, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. The pact aims to cover the trade in goods and services, as well as investment, intellectual property and dispute resolution.
The RSS offshoot has demanded that government must not sign RCEP, claiming that it would push the present and future generations to joblessness and poverty. The wing has also demanded to urgently publish the studies carried out by the government on the performance of FTA and finalise and publish the parliamentary standing committee report on FTA.