Labourers rally to protest outages

OUR STAFF REPORTER TOBA TEK SINGH - Various organisations of Toba Tek Singh will take out a rally from the Waryam Road on Monday (today) to protest against 20-hour power outages, inflated bills and unjustified raise in petroleum products prices. A meeting held at the Press Club was presided over by Labour Party district secretary Tariq Mahmood. It was addressed by Labour Qaumi Movement presidents of Kamalia,Gojra and Toba Malik Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Shabbir and Karam Elahi respectively. Separately, a joint meeting of the powerloom workers and owners associations was held on the Waryam Road in Factory Area with Powerloom Owners Association President Malik Rehmat Ali in the chair. On the occasion, Haji Idrees, Hasan Raza, Mian Zahid Iqbal, Dr Irshad and Ilyas Insari that the rally would be taken out to condemn prolonged power loadshedding.

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