Dharna by Powercom employees in support of employees demands

Mohali, August 27:- Today on 27 August 2026, keeping in view the call for one day mass leave (strike) given by the joint forum of employees and pensioners of all departments of Punjab Government, implementing the call of all organizations of Powercom, on the call of Joint Coordination Committee of Mohali Powercom Circle Mohali, dharna was staged in support of the struggle of Punjab employees. In which strong condemnation was made of Finance Minister of Punjab Government calling employees anti-national and the irresponsible attitude adopted by Punjab Government regarding employees demands including restoration of old pension scheme, stopping privatization, withdrawing letter dated 17/7/2020, non-implementation of Punjab Haryana High Court decision regarding DA, non-granting of factor of 2.59, non-regularization of temporary workers, non-starting of regular recruitment, cancellation of labour codes of 1948, non-abolition of pension period, non-implementation of scale of 35400, non-promotion of RTM to SSA was condemned and warning was given to the government that if employees demands are not accepted then warning was given to launch even sharper struggle in coming time.
This dharna was addressed by Gurabaksh Singh Circle President, Jaspal Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Jatinder Singh from TSU, Comrade Lakkha Singh Convener, Vijay Kumar, Balbir Singh, Rajinder Kumar from Pensioners Association, Harpreet Singh, Surind Pal Singh Lahoria State Leader Suba Secretary AITUC, Naib Singh, Harvinder Singh President Joint Coordination Committee, Gurmail Singh, Nirmal Singh from Federation AITUC, Brij Mohan Sharma, Sukhwinder Singh, Bhupinder Singh from Pensioners Union, Ekam Sidhu leader of CHB workers, farmer organizations, Lakhwinder Singh Happy from Bhartiya Kisan Union Ugrahan, Tarlochan Singh Suba President Rustam Ji from Bhartiya Kisan Union Puadh.