Amritsar : In a coordinated program of eighteen Kissan Majdoor Organizations under the banner of Sanjukat Kissan Morcha (Non-Political) in Punjab held a massive protest in front of Deputy Commissioners and SDMS offices all over the Punjab.
SKM leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said they were carrying out a protest with hundreds of activists while stressing upon their seven major demands including issues of stubble burning, prepaid electricity meters, drug trafficking .
Adding further Pandher informed that farmers, laborers and women gathered together to stage protests outside the offices of DCs and SDMs. In this this regard demonstrations were held at 34 places including 22 DC offices and 12 SDMs in Punjab from 12 onwards to till evening. Pandher was participating alongwith SKM activists in Amritsar Administration complex ( Deputy Commissioner office).
Pandher said that today, the leaders of various organizations addressing different sit-ins said that instead of solving the problem of stubble, the government was using the media to defame the farmers by alleging that farmers were polluting the environment.
He said that the demands of the organizations were that the penalties, pamphlets and red entries imposed on stubble burning be cancelled forthwith, besides the Tughlaki ( one sided directives) orders like canceling the passports and arms licenses of farmers who burn stubble and other government facilities would be withdrawn.
