Punjab: Kin of farmer who died during 2019 protest get job letter
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Punjab: Kin of farmer who died during 2019 protest get job letter
Description
BATHINDA: Getting relief after long, the family of deceased farmer Jagseer Singh of Kotda Koda village got the appointment letter for his son as helper in Punjab education department along with an assurance to withdraw cases against farmers registered in 2019 for paddy stubble burning. Activists of farm organisation BKU (Ekta Sidhupur) had been holding a protest for these demands for long. Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s political secretary Capt Sandeep Sandhu, in the presence of union state president Jagjit Singh Dallewal, handed over the appointment letter in Bathinda on Friday evening and gave an assurance to withdraw cases registered for burning paddy stubble. Earlier, upset over not providing the promised job to kin of a farmer having died at the protest site at Jaito 19 months ago, activists had spent the night of July 6 at Bathinda-Talwandi Sabo road outside district administrative complex (DAC). BKU (Sidhupur), in December 2019, started the protest at Jaito town in Faridkot district to demand withdrawal of cases registered against farmers for burning paddy stubble. Jagseer died at the protest on December 7. The state government had announced ex gratia grant and job to kin and withdrawal of cases by setting up a committee. Though the compensation was provided to bereaved family, job had not been given and the cases were not withdrawn. “The government, though belated, has fulfilled its promise of job to bereaved family and withdrawal of cases,” said Dallewal.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-07-10
Coverage
Chandigarh