CHANDIGARH: Punjab leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa has asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to rehabilitate the families whose houses were demolished in Jalandhar’s Latifpura locality.
Bajwa advised the state government on Monday here to have a rehabilitation plan ready before big eviction campaigns, so that people are not rendered homeless. Latifpura’s 50-odd families, which include women, children, and senior citizens, are forced to spend winter nights on the roadside after the Jalandhar Improvement Trust brought down their homes that had existed for 75 years.”
Wishing for the announcement of a rehabilitation programme and immediate relief for the ousted families, Bajwa said: “The state government should at least provide them with food, mattresses, blankets, tarpaulin or prefabricated tin shelters, and temporary toilets. These families claim that their elders came from Pakistan after Partition, and for 75 years, had never thought they would be evicted.”
The LoP said: “Their elders had migrated to India in 1947 in the hope of joining own people. It’s sad that their current generation had to go through this trauma. The Mann government should understand that we live in a welfare state that must own the responsibility for the citizens’ well-being.”
