SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday assured to fully support Numberdars of Punjab in their genuine demands. The assurance was made as a delegation of Numberdar Union met him at the party head office.
Sukhbir told the visiting delegation of the Numberdar Unions that the SAD will ponder over their genuine demands and will include all such demands in the party manifesto which the SAD-led alliance will be able to complete after coming to power. SAD is a party of principles and believes in only saying what it could accomplish, he added.
Delegation, led by chief patron Bhupinder Singh Gill, told Sukhbir that their demand was to make the post of Numberdar a hereditary post, their honorarium should be increased, Numberdars should be given relaxation in bus fare and toll taxes, they should be made members of District Level Grievances Committees besides others, a room should be allotted to them in Tehsil complexes, they should be awarded on August 15 and January 26 among other demands.