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Modi, Amarinder govts hell- bent on destroying government institutions: Bhagwant Mann

Patiala, August 19, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state President and MP Bhagwant Mann alleged that the Narendra Modi government at the centre and the Amarinder Singh Center in the state had adopted a dangerous policy of privatizing every government institution from the level of roads to schools, calling upon the people stand rock solid against their evil designs.

Bhagwant Mann was here on Wednesday to join the ongoing ‘Dharna’ being staged held against the state government and university administration by Punjab government teachers, professors and non-teaching staff of Punjabi University, Patiala, for their legitimate demands, including the non-payment of their salaries on time.

Taking a pot shot at PM Narendra Modi, Bhagwant Mann said that PM was all set to doling out government properties and national institutions, including the railways, highways, airports, LICs to private corporate houses, like the Ambani and Andani for penuts, saying Punjab’s ‘royal government’ was in a tearing hurry to overtake the Modi government in this race.

After its nefarious move to shut down the Bathinda Thermal Plant, the govt in the saddle had been in the process of sacrificing Malwa’s pride and mother tongue punjab’s glory – Punjabi University Patiala, which was allowed to wean away under a deep conspiracy, simply to hand it over to private hands. He said the recommendations of the Montek Singh Ahluwalia Committee clearly indicated such dangerous moves of the Modi and the Amarinder Singh governments.

Mann said that what could worse expected of a government which was forcing its teachers-professors of their government employees of schools, colleges and universities, forcing them to stage protests or strike work for their salaries.

The AAP MP assured the protesting professors and other staff that not only they were seized of the matter to save the prestigious government institutions, like Punjabi University, but the Aam Aadmi Party was there with them to fight till the end.

He said: “It is the duty of all of us to protect and preserve all institutions till the AAP formed government in 2022. After forming its government in the state, all government schools, colleges and universities are taken care of on a priority basis” Mann said.

Bhagwant Mann assured the protestors that Aam Aadmi Party would take up the issue of cash-starved prestigious universities and other government schools and colleges in the state including Punjabi University in the Lok Sabha and Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

Others present on the occasion included Prof. Bhim Inder Singh, Nina Mittal, Harchand Singh Bursat, Dr. Balvir, Kundan Gogia, Tejinder Mehta, Chetan Singh Jormajra, Baldev Singh Devigarh, RPS Malhotra, Megh Chand Sharma, Preeti Malhotra, Ranjodh Singh Hadana, Amit Vicky, Khushwant Sharma, Ashok Sirse Bal, Sanjeev Gupta, General Manu etc.

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