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Environment sage forced agenda on politicos
WSN Network

KAPURTHALA: Environmental sage and holy greenman Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal has forced the issue of climate change and water resources on to the politicians. So when he launched an activist campaign, rival politicians including pop star turned MP aspirant Hans Raj Hans and Congress nominee Mohinder Singh Kaypee fighting for Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat came rushing to pledge to work for cleaning natural water resources in their constituency.

“I will wage a war against contamination of natural water resources in my constituency ,” said Hans. Kaypee said: “The Congress lost the 2007 Assembly elections because we failed to safeguard the environment. I will raise this issue in Parliament and secure funds for setting up water-treatment plants in the constituency.” Not many believed them, but it proved that good men can force an agenda if they are themselves sincere.

Baba Seechewal had taken his campaign to the banks of the Kala Sanghian drain to sensitise the suffering dwellers about their right to question the politicians on environment issues.

In the first leg of his 10-day campaign, Baba Seechewal fired a fresh salvo at the government and sought prosecution of officials over the issue of unchecked release of untreated industrial and municipal waste into the Kala Sanghian drain, Budha Nullah and Chitti Bein. He demanded that the locals be given compensation for losing their health to this contamination.

8 April 2009
 

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