LUDHIANA: PSPCL employees, pensioners and farmers today held a massive protest at Ludhiana against sale of PSPCL land by Bhagwant Mann led AAP Government and Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 and submitted a memorandum at the Power Minister's residence.
The government's proposal to sell the PSPCL, s expensive properties spread over hundreds of acres in big cities and towns for office and grid construction and against the proposed draft of the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 .
The protest rally was attended by the PSEB Engineers Association , PSEB Employees Joint Forum, Bijli Mulazam Ekta Manch Punjab, Association of Junior Engineers, Grid Substation Employees Union , Powercom and Transco Pensioners Union Punjab with the strong support of various farmers and labor organizations.
The various leaders said that on one hand the Punjab government claims to be rich, on the other hand it is selling government properties in Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar and other cities. Further the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 is a direct attack on the rights of the states which will destroy the federal structure of the country. The leaders said that under the pressure of the capitalists, the central government wants to take direct control of the power institutions by passing the draft of this amendment bill. The leaders said that with the anti-people draft of this bill, an important institution like electricity will go into the hands of the capitalists, and the cross subsidy given to the common people and farmers will be abolished and people will be forced to buy expensive power. The jobs of the employees will be in danger and where all the new recruitment will be done through
The Joint Forum strongly condemned the anti-people and inferior proposal of the Punjab government to sell the properties and vowed to strongly oppose the sale of the institution's properties and the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 through joint struggles. After the protest, the protesters held a flag march announcing a massive protest march will be held on November 9 in the Tarn Taran assembly constituency where the by-election is being held.