Union activists burn effigy of FinMin Manpreet Singh Badal in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, November 17

The Municipal Karamchari Dal on Wednesday continued their protest outside the MC Zone A office and burnt an effigy of Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal. Union members are demanding regularisation of jobs of contractual sewer men, safai karamcharis and other Class IV employees.

Safai karamcharis and sewer men clean filth of the people, but they are not paid deserved salaries. Their jobs have not been regularised by the state government.  — Vijay Danav, Chairman, Municipal Karamchari Dal

Meanwhile, union members criticised the police lathicharge on safai karamcharis in Moga. They slammed the Moga MLA, Mayor, MC Commissioner and cops after the police lathicharged safai karamcharis in Moga.

Speaking during the protest outside the Zone A office in Ludhiana, the union chairman, Vijay Danav, strongly criticised the Congress government led by Charanjit Singh Channi in Punjab. He said safai karamcharis and sewer men cleaned filth of the people, but they were not paid deserved salary and their jobs had been regularised by the state government.

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