Property dealers protest outside district admn complex by playing flute in front of buffalo in Muktsar

Convinced that their demand to decrease the collector rates of property in the district was falling on deaf ears, property dealers, colonisers and document writers today staged a protest in a novel way by playing flute in front of a buffalo after tying it to the main entrance of the District Administrative Complex (DAC) in Muktsar. The indefinite protest entered its fifth day on Friday.

Ashok Chugh and Karamjit Karma, who are heading the protest, said, “We have met the local MLA and officers a number of times, but nobody is bothered about us. Our business is hit hard as the state government has hiked the collector rates of properties thrice in the last two years. As a result, we decided to intensify our stir and came to the DAC today to play flute in front of buffalo to prove true the idiom, ‘bhains ke aage been bajaana’.”

They further announced that they would go on a half-naked protest on the occasion of Dussehra on Saturday.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, PCC chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Congress leader-cum-former MLA Muktsar Karan Kaur Brar and local BJP leader Rajesh Pathela Gora have already extended their support to the protesters and visited the site of the protest.

Property dealers, colonisers and document writers play flute in front of a buffalo