Protest against property Bill
Monday, 27/10/2014
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Fazilka : Activists of Left parties, including the CPI, the CPM and the CPI (ML), organised a rally in the Pratap Bagh area against the alleged "anti-people" policies of the state government.
The rally was addressed by CPM state secretariat member Raghunath Singh, state committee members Kartar Singh and Gurnam Singh, Fazilka district unit office-bearers Bakhtawar Singh, Darshan Singh, Gurcharan Singh Arora, Abnash Chander Lalowali and Hans Raj Golden.
The speakers termed the Prevention of Damage to Public and Private Property Bill, 2014, as "black law". "The law snatches away the right of trade unions and others to hold protests. Leaders of protesters can be booked on frivolous grounds of damaging private and public property," Raghunath Singh said.
The leaders also demanded the strengthening of the public distribution system and abolition of urban property tax. Their other demands included withdrawal of the "black law", control on prices of sand and gravel, increase in old-age pension to Rs 3,000, checking the drug menace and crime against women. The leaders appealed to the activists to turn up in large numbers for the state-level rally to be held in Ludhiana on November 28.
