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The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Indian Workers’ Union) is the largest central trade union organization in India. It was founded by Dattopantji Thengdi on July 23 1955 which also happens to the birthday of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.The BMS itself claims to have more 10million members. At present it is estimated around 5860 unions are affiliated to the BMS. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour the BMS had a membership of 6215797 in 2002.