Garhshankar, May 23- The state committee of the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) Punjab has strongly condemned the police of six districts forcibly stopping the democratic protest by the struggling landless workers who are reaching 927 acres of land in Jind state near Sangrur city to settle Begampura, arresting hundreds of activists and leaders and sending them to jail, and has demanded the immediate unconditional release of all the arrested workers.
DTF State Joint Secretary Mukesh Kumar, District President Sukhdev Dansiwal, Secretary Indersukhdeep Singh Odra, Finance Secretary Manjit Singh Dasuha, District leaders Baljit Singh, Ashni Kumar, Nirmal Singh, Baljinder Singh and Manjit Singh Banga said that according to the Constitution of India, land owned more than 17.5 acres (fort) in Punjab has to be distributed among the landless people under the Land Ceiling Act. 
Regarding this demand, the landless laborers, who are among the most affected people in the society, have been campaigning for a long time to distribute 927 acres of land in Bechirag village of Bir Aswan, which was once part of the princely state of the Raja of Jind, among the landless people. 
But the Bhagwant Mann government of Punjab does not accept that landless workers should demand their constitutional rights, so the Punjab government is on the path of crushing this democratic struggle of these people through police force. Under this, more than 300 workers, including about 100 women, have been arrested and sent to jails in various cities of Malwa.
The leaders of the DTF said that after the defeat of the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi Assembly elections, the Punjab government has been badly shaken and the police have stopped the groups going to Bir Aswan (Sangrur) to settle Begampura on May 20 by erecting barriers, pushing them, and arresting hundreds of people, including women, have shown that after the farmers, the AAP government has now also embarked on the path of crushing the struggle of the landless people by force. The leaders further said that suppressing the leaders of the Land Acquisition Struggle Committee for raising the voice of the oppressed, downtrodden and landless people for centuries exposes the anti-Dalit, anti-labor face of the Punjab government, for which the government will have to pay in the coming time.