Chandigarh, August 22 : Punjab Leader of Opposition Mrs. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, here today, strongly condemned the cane charge, firing of rubber shells, tear gas, water cannons and brutal use of force on farmers and farm labour at village Kheowali in Lambi Constituency on Thursday who were agitating against non implementation of their already accepted genuine demands.
Mrs. Bhattal said that as per news paper reports, although consensus had been reached in a meeting of Khet Majdoor Union with Chief Minister, Punjab on 14th April, but their demands had not been met so far, which prompted them to agitate. Lamenting the use of force against those agitating against the poor and anti people policies of the SAD-BJP Government, she termed it uncalled for, unfortunate, deplorable and highly condemnable.
Mrs. Bhattal said that present regime had crossed all limits in order to gag democracy and press, which is evident from its day today working. She said that the Government had miserably failed on all fronts, be it power supply, fiscal management or the release of old age pensions, shagun schemes etc. What to speak of implementing the 6th Pay Commission recommendations, the Government has made a practice to order the treasuries verbally to not to release even the legitimate payments such as GPF advances of the Government employees, she decried.