Punjab CM warns employees against strike

Chandigarh (IANS). Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday issued a stern warning to employees working in the offices of Deputy Commissioners and Patwaris not to participate in any protests.

CM Mann said that the employees who have threatened to sit on a pen-down strike in the coming days may lose their jobs as there are many unemployed people in the state whose services can be taken in their place.

Official sources said the chief minister’s stern warning came at a time when revenue employees were busy collecting field reports on damage to crops, livestock and houses in the flood-affected areas and their proposed strike would affect their work.

It is learned that the revenue employees had called for the strike to protest against the arrest of a Patwari in a bribery case.