LAHORE, Aug 16: The Labour Party Pakistan on Friday condemned besieging of Renala Khurd by the Rangers and eviction of tenants tilling these fields for more than nine decades.

A party press statement said the action reminded of inhuman treatment by the English imperialism meted out to its subjects. The Rangers on Friday afternoon took over and cut off water supply to the entire city.

The government, it said, was deliberately occupying lands of these tenants. It should stop the operation and return the lands to the poor farmers, it demanded.

Meanwhile, the Anjuman Mazarain Punjab criticized the Rangers’ operation in Renala Khurd. The chairman of the Anjuman, in a press statement claimed that the government was negotiating with the tenants on the one hand and, on the other, evicted them through the state force.

The farmers were ready for talks with any one from the government side because they believed in dialogue. But bureaucracy was bent upon creating a law and order situation in the country by doing such senseless things. It asked the farmers to keep their cool and avoid any rash step lest government put them behind the bars on frivolous charges, they said.