Effigies of Union Govt burnt in Tarn Taran over Bhakra water allocation

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab has expressed great resentment against the alleged indifferent attitude shown by the BJP-led Union Government and the management of Bhakhra Beas Management Board (BBMB) by organising demonstrations in different parts of the district. The protesters also burnt effigies of the Union Government.

The party workers gathered in large numbers at Lahore Chowk for the protest in which sarpanches, members of panchayats and officer-bearers of different state government organisations took part. Gurwinder Singh Beharwal, district president and Chairman of the District Planning Committee, while speaking on the occasion, condemned the BBMB for releasing excess canal water to Haryana and warned that the people of Punjab would in no way allow this indifferent attitude to continue.

Beharwal said that the state of Punjab was already facing an acute shortage of water while the groundwater level was getting further depleted. He said that the state leaders of the BJP stood by Central Government at the cost of Punjab farmers and had become mute spectators to the excess.

Speaking in Bhikhiwind, senior AAP leaders sharply condemned the Union Government and said that the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi adopted repressive tactics but the brave Punjabis had foiled all her anti-Punjab policies.

The AAP workers burnt effigies in Tarn Taran too.