Title - Rly employees stage dharna

Bathinda : Railway employees today went on hunger strike demanding the acceptance of their long-pending demands.The dharna was part of the call for protest given by the All India Railway Federation. The railway employees staged their protest on platform number 6 under the leadership of Thakur Singh. Addressing the workers, Thakur Singh said the ten-point charter of demands of the running staff has been pending for long. The demands include the restructuring of posts, creation of new posts, jobs for the children of the railway employees.The protesters also called for accepting the long-pending demands of the trackmen.The union leaders urged the workers to remain united in their fight against the government. The workers also warned that they would intensify their agitation if their demands were not met soon.The employees also alleged that due to the staff crunch, they have to work extra and they fail to get proper rest.

Manjeet Singh Dhillon, Gurcharan Singh, Simratpal Singh, Tejinder Sharma, Prem Gupta, Sukhwinder Singh, Surinder Kumar, Manjit Kumar, Satpal, Devinder Rana, Bharat Bhushan Bharti, Surjeet Singh, Babu Lal and others were among the members of the union present during the dharna.