Episode no 84
This interview with Gurpreet Singh, pharmacist and union spokesperson in the Department of Animal Husbandry, was published on 29 September 2022. At the beginning of the interview, he was asked whether Bhagwant Maan’s government is aware of your demands or difficulties, so he said that no one knows our problems better than Bhagwant Maan. Because when the protests was held at Mohali during the Akali government, only Bhagwant Mann supported it. But today Bhagwant Mann’s government is doing worse to us than previous governments. The employees had voted by trusting Bhagwant Maan, but today the employees are being tortured by this government. He said that instead of regularizing the employees who have been working in the animal husbandry department on contract for the last 16 years, the government is recruiting youths from Rajasthan and Haryana. He said that the government is not thinking about 4th class employees and pharmacists. He said that when the government was not listening to us, the employees boycotted the vaccines. After which the Director Animal Husbandry held a district level meeting with the employees and threatened them that they will be fired from their jobs. He said that there are not even veterinary doctors in 150 hospitals of Punjab. He said that the government never thinks about regularizing employees or about salaries. He also talked about the negative behavior of Laljit Bhullar and Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema towards the employees. He said that if the government does not solve these many issues, protests will be held in the near future.
~kulwinder kaur bajwa