The Punjab Congress will launch a morcha on September 2 by courting arrest in batches to force the government to scrap land acquisition for Indiabull’s Gobindpura thermal project in Mansa district.
Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh will lead the agitation, which will be started at Baretta mandi from where Congress activists will march to Gobindpura. The PPCC president said here today that party workers would defy prohibitory orders and continue to court arrest till the land acquisition process was scrapped. He said everyday one District Congress Committee would take the responsibility of leading the agitation.
Till now, it is the Akalis that have been known for their morchas, including the Jaito and Kapoori morchas, which were organised to force the British to restore the throne of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha and ensure that the Punjab waters did not flow into the Sutluj Yamuna Link (SYL) canal.
The Akalis had used the same tactics as proposed by Amarinder when the then SAD president Parkash Singh Badal and MP Sukhbir Badal were lodged in the Patiala jail in December 2003.
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