Sangrur, August 14
Unemployed members of the five unions, which had been staging a protest before the local residence of Minister Vijay Inder Singla here since December 31 last year, protested against the minister at an event in Roshanwala, where he had come to inaugurate Government Degree College.
“We have been demanding jobs in government department as per our eligibility. But, whenever we come to meet the minister, we are thrashed by the police and taken into custody. Since the state government has failed to fulfil its promise of providing ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar’, its ministers are evading to meet us,” said protester Gagandeep Kaur, who was taken into custody by the Bhawanigarh police along with six others, including Aman Sekha, Preet Inder Kaur, Pritpal Kaur, Kulwant Singh Longowal, Manpreet Kaur and Lakhvir Singh.
- Dharna outside FM, MLA’s residence
- Government employees of various departments on Saturday lodged a protest outside the residences of Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal at Badal village and Gidderbaha MLA Amrinder Singh Raja Warring’s residence in Muktsar
- The protesters said their demand was genuine, but the state government was not listening to them. The Gidderbaha MLA also sat with the protesters for some time
Members of BEd and TET pass along with members of four other unions — All-Punjab 873 DPE Teachers Union, 646 PTI Teachers Union Punjab, Unemployed Art and Craft Union and Unemployed Multipurpose Health Union — under the banner of Joint Front of Unemployed, have been sitting on indefinite protest here before the local residence of Singla since December 31 last year. Earlier, they had organised protest here from September 2019 to April 2020.
Bhawanigarh DSP Sukhraj Singh said: “We took them into custody and released them at a distance to avoid any trouble at the public event.” —TNS
Punjab minister Vijay Inder Singla faces ire of jobless youth in Sangruru village
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