Water cannons used on Haryana farmers protesting towards Sirsa BJP MP

The police Wednesday used water cannons on farmers at Sirsa after they had been staging a protest towards native BJP MP Sunita Duggal and native Haryana Lokhit Party MLA Gopal Kanda, who may be supporting the BJP-JJP alliance within the state. The farmers protested for just about 4 hours at the same time as they faced with policemen.

The protest was once in reference to their announcement of social boycott of BJP-JJP leaders in Haryana over the problem of 3 contentious farm regulations.

Conserving black flags in arms, the farmers had long past to degree a protest towards Duggal and Kanda at 10 am when the 2 had been scheduled to visit the place of work of native municipal council the place the election for the chairperson of the civic frame was once scheduled. As many as 300 policemen had been deployed to shape a robust human wall to stop farmers from shifting to the place of work of the civic frame.

“We had long past to carry a calm protest there however the police stopped us at a distance from the MC place of work through hanging up barricades. We had been urging the police to permit us to transport close to the MC place of work. When the farmers attempted to wreck the barricades, the police resorted to lathicharge and used water cannons on us. Round seven-eight farmers have suffered accidents within the incident,” stated an area farmer chief, Lakhvinder Singh.

On the other hand, Sirsa SP Bhupender Singh claimed that no power was once used towards farmers apart from water cannons for “two mins”. “The farmers had been flattening the barricades whilst making an attempt to achieve close to the polling station. We asked them that the election was once happening following the orders of Punjab and Haryana Top Court docket,” he instructed The Indian information, including that no person suffered accidents within the incident.

Reacting to the incident, MLA Kanda claimed that the protesters weren’t exact farmers however had been fascinated by politics. “The farmers will have to at once cling discussion with the Top Minister and Leader Minister as a result of each and every dispute may also be resolved with discussion,” he stated.
MP Duggal stated, “I had long past to the place of work of civic frame with municipal councillors. I didn’t see any protest there. I got here to grasp during the media simplest. The police may have used power when some other folks confirmed indiscipline.” The HLP’s Reena Sethi gained the election for the put up of MC chairperson securing 17 votes towards 15 votes of the BJP’s Suman Bamnia.

On Tuesday, the farmers had surrounded Kurukshetra MP Nayab Singh Saini in Shahabad the town whilst elevating slogans towards him.

The police arrested 4 individuals at the rate of try to homicide in reference to the incident.