SAD to stage 15 protest dharnas against Congress government’s anti-people policies
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday decided to complete the entire party organization this month besides finalizing the schedule for protest dharnas against Congress government’s anti-people policies and programmes in the remaining 15 districts of the State. A decision was taken in a meeting of legislators and halqa sewadars’ as well as District Presidents and senior functionaries which was presided over by SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal. The SAD President said that the manner in which government functioning had been paralyzed, development stopped, power rates for domestic and industrial supply hiked inordinately besides deterioration of law and order, it seemed there was no government in Punjab. He also said that the SAD would through its series of dharnas, galvanize people into action and force the government to fulfill the promises made to farmers, youth and weaker sections of society. While giving details of the meeting, party senior vice president Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said that it was decided that the party delegates would start the process of electing the Circle as well as District bodies and finish this process within a month. He stated that it was also decided to intensify the ‘Rosh Dharna’ movement against the Congress party. The party had finalized the dates for the 15 district level dharnas which would commence on February 13 from Amritsar and would culminate on April 11 at Mohali. Meanwhile, he said that the party had held seven protest dharnas earlier. He also said that party president Sukhbir Singh Badal would preside over the all protest dharnas and that they would also be attended by the senior leadership. https://www.ptcnews.tv/bollywood-actor-and-gurdaspur-mp-sunny-deol-bath-in-manali-ptc-news-en/ Here is the schedule of 15 district level dharnas: