OKARA, April 25: The Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) has said the talks with the military farm authority on the contract issue have collapsed. However, an MFA spokesman claims that tenants are not willing to pay contract amount and that all legal proceedings against tenants would be initiated accordingly.

According to reports, representatives of tenants, including David Zahid, Abdul Sattar Chaman, Muhammad Altaf and Munawar Bibi and four MFA officials along with DPO Syed Jafar Abbas Bokhari held talks in a girls school at Chak 11/4-L on Monday.

After the meeting, tenants’ spokesmen David Zahid and Abdul Sattar said that the dialogues had been unsuccessful.

They said that MFA officials had not accepted their demands of giving tenants of Chak 15/4-L alternative agriculture lands, discharging of pending cases against them and removing of army pickets from villages.

Army officials were also told that tenants were ready to keep 250 maunds of wheat as surety with the forces and the balance contract amount would be paid to them at the time of getting alternate lands.

They said that the military administration was demanding the payment of contract amount immediately.

As a protest, they said that tenants would neither lift the wheat harvested some two days back nor they would harvest it in future.

On the other hand, the MFA spokesman said that suitable offers had been given to tenants in the meeting, but they did not budge from their stance.

Meanwhile, tenants apprehended that personnel of the Punjab Constabulary, who have already reached Okara, would launch operation in military farm villages to tighten screws on tenants.