Patiala 22 April- On the call of Punjab Employees and Pensioners United Front, government and semi-government employees, pensioners and temporary employees held a protest rally in the district administrative complex and burnt the body of the false servants of the Punjab Government. First of all, the employees-pensioners and temporary employees gathered at the Forest Division Office of the Forest Department and took out a rally against the forest officials here and marched to the Deputy Commissioner's Office, where they strongly criticized the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister.
It was demanded that 2.59 factor should be applied on employees and pensioners, installments of dearness allowance should be released, pension of 2004 should be restored, new regular recruitment should be done, the posts abolished during the reorganization of the departments should be restored, the services of the employees removed from Forestry and Forest Corporation should be continued, pending salary should be released, minimum salary should be made Rs 125 per month. 35000/-, contract, outsourced and daily wages should be regularized, contract system in government and semi-government institutions should be abolished, recent meagre increase in minimum wages is a joke with the employees and labourers etc.
Various leaders including Darshan Singh Lubana, Bhinder Singh Chahal, Baljinder Singh, Jagmohan Nolkha, Ram Lal Rama, Santokh Singh Boparai, Vijay Sanger, Deep Chand Hans, Pritam Chand Thakur, Sukhwinder Singh DCFA, Rajesh Golu were present in the rally. Ved Prakash, Narang Singh, Balbir Singh, Swarn Banga, Inderpal, Rajesh Kumar, Kamaljit Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Prakash Lubana, Nisha Rani, Malkit Singh, Vaid Kali, Megh Raj, Tarlochan Maru, Balwinder Singh, Darshan Malewal, Tarlochan Mandoli, Ram Jodha, Sunil Dutt, Mahant Bhadason, Bansi Lal, Sukhdev Singh Jhandi, Chander Bhan, Gurpreet Singh, Hari Ram Nikka, Baljinder Singh, Ravinder, Harbans Verma Gaggat, Subhash  Darshan Singh Lubana etc were present.