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Bathinda, July 9
Capt Sandeep Sandhu, adviser to the Chief Minister, today visited Bathinda and gave a government job offer letter to Gurwinder Singh, son of deceased farmer Jagsir Singh of Kaura Kotra village, following which, the BKU, Sidhupur, called off the protest after 10 months of struggle.
Jagsir died by suicide during a protest held by the BKU, Sidhupur, in Jaitu, opposing the cases registered against farmers for stubble burning.
The union had demanded to waive the loan on Jagsir, and sought compensation and a government job for one family member. The government had provided the compensation and waived his loan, but no job was given to any family member till date.
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‘But have you ever heard a story in which the evil person trumps at the end?’ The boy thought for a while before replying. ‘No,’ he said, ‘but before they lose, they harm the good people. That is what I am afraid of.’ From Nadeem Aslam’s ‘The Blind Man’s Garden’
My father breathed his last on May 28. Unable to cope with Covid’s onslaught on his lungs, he slipped away unconscious on a ventilator. He would have turned 77. Born in 1944 in Kamoke, a town north of Lahore, he was nicknamed ‘Baagi’ after the rebellious spirit of freedom fighters. Foreboding the events of 1947, the Sikh family moved to Amritsar just before Partition to avoid forced displacement. But fate would have it otherwise. On a day when my grandfather was away in Kamoke on a work trip, a mob set their mixed faith neighbourhood’s Muslim homes on fire. And it is anybody’s guess, people of which faith(s) would have set fire to the Muslim homes in Amritsar. And they would