Farmers Movement Archive

Chautala village farmers lock power house over demands

Sirsa: Farmers of Chautala village on Thursday locked up the main gate of the power house, forcing Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam SDO Yugank Jain and JE Suresh Karwasra to visit them under police protection and accept their letter of demands. The farmers, who have been sitting on dharna for three days at Haryana power minister Ranjit Singh Chautala’s village, relented after an assurance of redressal of their grievances at the earliest. All India Kisan Sabha tehsil president Rakesh Fagoria said the government has given the contract for around 200 tubewell connections to a private company but only 67 have been installed so far. He alleged that the supervisor of Chautala-Asa Khera power house takes bribes for giving tubewell connections. He said they started a dharna against this on Tuesday and laid siege to the power house, but no officer met them. Jain said he heard the farmers’ problem and had ordered to speed up the tubewell connection work. Regarding allegations of bribery, he said the accused will be booked if the farmers provide an evidence.

The Times of India

2021-02-12

Chandigarh