Harish Rawat leads Congress protest rally against laws in Nakodar
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Harish Rawat leads Congress protest rally against laws in Nakodar
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JALANDHAR: Congress Punjab party affairs in-charge Harish Rawat on Tuesday led a tractor rally to protest the new farm laws, from Nakodar to Talwan via Nurmahal. He said the Centre was bent upon making farmers slaves of corporates and if the laws were allowed, mandi and MSP systems would collapse. He was accompanied by Jalandhar MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary, Phillaur assembly constituency in-charge Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary and Nakodar constituency in-charge Jagbir Singh Brar. Later, Rawat held a meeting with party leaders and workers in Jalandhar. Though it was said to be a workers’ meeting, only former minister Avtar Henry and MP Santokh Singh addressed the meeting in Rawat’s presence. Two workers rose to express dissatisfaction that organisational set-up had not been put in place in the state for the last close to eleven months. They also said that those coming from SAD were getting more importance. Rawat said he would sit in the Circuit House where workers could convey him the feedback personally.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-11-11
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Chandigarh