Centre using govt agencies to quell protest: Vijay Inder Singla

Our Correspondent

Fatehgarh Sahib, December 21

The Modi government is misusing government agencies to browbeat all those who are supporting the farmers’ agitation. The CM has taken serious note of the raids on commission agents and will take up the issue with the appropriate authority, Vijay Inder Singla, Minister for Education, said while interacting with mediapersons at Bassi Pathana today.

He was here to name the Bassi Pathan-Kharar road as Giani Ditt Singh Marg to pay obeisance to Giani Dit Singh, who was a poet, writer, editor and one of the founders of the Singh Sabha movement and instrumental in the development of Sikh history and Punjabi language. Singla announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for development projects in the village.

Answering a query regarding lathicharge on teachers, he expressed ignorance and said he did not know which faction of the union had organised the protest. He said the government was open for talks with every organisation to redress their grievances. The state government was going to fill one lakh vacancies this year, he added.