Farmers protest Electricity Amendment Bill

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 1

Members of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee at Lohian on Monday held a dharna outside the office of the SDO, Fattuwal village, in protest against the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020.

Farmers held the protest in solidarity with electricity employees and against the government move to privatise electricity in the country. Speaking on the occasion, cashier of the union, Gurlal Singh, said the Central Government was looking to pass a Bill which was going to ruin farmers.

They said the resolution was passed by the Badals with corporate families and the incumbent Congress government was silent about it. They demanded that the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 and the Electricity Amendment Act 2003 be dismissed and subsidies be implemented for farm labourers.

They also demanded that beneficiaries be given electricity at Re 1 per unit. The protesters demanded 16-hour power supply and regularisation of contract labourers. Salwinder Singh Jania, Jagtar Singh Chak Wadala and Satnam Singh Araiwal were among prominent present.