Khet Mazdoor Union begins 3-day protest

Lambi/Muktsar: Activists of the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union today launched their three-day protest at Lambi village. They are demanding free five-marla plots for the homeless, compensation against cotton crop failure for farm labourers and financial aid for families of debt-laden farmers who committed suicide. Lachman Singh Sewewala, general secretary of the union, said, “If the state government did not fulfil our demands, we will intensify our stir. The CM, on April 1, had assured us that 20,000 plots would be given to farm labourers, but the process has not started yet.”He appealed to the state government to provide permanent employment to the poor and stop thrashing Dalits in the name of cow protection. TNS

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