Jobless teachers roughed up by SAD activists

Lily

B.R
Staff member
Bathinda March 18:

More than a dozen activists, including girls, of the Unemployed PTI Teachers’ Union, were roughed up here today by SAD activists when they tried to disrupt a foundation stone-laying ceremony that was presided over by the Bathinda MP, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, at Gurdwara Haji Rattan.

Besides the policemen, a number of senior leaders of the SAD, including a member of the political affairs committee, thrashed them in the presence of Harsimrat Kaur and the SGPC chief, Avtar Singh Makkar. The situation turned explosive as a result of which the security staff advised Harsimrat Kaur to leave the spot immediately. Harsimrat Kaur was here to lay the foundation stone of two schools run by the SGPC, Dashmesh Khalsa School and Dashmesh School for Differently Able children, in the gurdwara complex.

As soon as she laid the first stone, a number of activists of the Unemployed PTI Teachers’ Union started raising slogans to press for the acceptance of their demands. Harsimrat Kaur advised them to take up the issue with the state government. Irked over her reply, the agitators became more aggressive in their protest. The SAD leaders did not even spare the agitating girls and dragged them away by their dupattas in the presence of Harsimrat Kaur, the patron of the ‘Nanhi Chhaan’ campaign.

Sikander Singh Maluka said, “We had persuaded the agitators to opt for a meeting with the MP in a peaceful manner but when they turned aggressive, we all had to come forward to ensure the safety of Harsimrat Kaur. Refuting the allegations of thrashing girls, Maluka said he had just pushed the protesters away from the MP.

 
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