Farmers cling dharna, call for cancellation of FIRs for attack on BJP MLA

A DAY after 4 farmers from Punjab’s Malout had been arrested in reference to the attack on Abohar MLA Arun Narang, farmers from other villages within the house held a daylong ‘pakka dharna’ at Malout’s Bathinda Chowk on Monday, hard cancellation of the FIRs.

They in any case relented and lifted the dharna round 7.30 pm after cops arrived there and confident them of honest investigation within the case.

Muktsar Police had on Sunday arrested 4 individuals and booked 23 others in reference to the attack at the BJP MLA in Malout the town on Saturday.

The protesting farmers additionally alleged that the assault was once stage-managed, and accused the BJP of striking the blame on farmers due to this fact.

The dharna disrupted site visitors motion in opposition to Muktsar, Bathinda, Abohar and Dabwali for almost 9 hours throughout the day. The protesters accused the BJP of subjecting them to “psychological attack” for the previous many months.

The protesters additionally alleged that the police had booked a farmer from Bodhiwala village who had died 3 years in the past. “A lot of farmers who weren’t even provide at dharna however are contributors of farmers’ unions were booked, which displays non-serious nature of the investigation,” Sidhupur district president of BKU, Sukhdev Singh Buragujar, mentioned.

In the meantime, the bandh referred to as by means of the BJP at Malout till 2pm Monday were given a lukewarm reaction, with a couple of markets in part closed. Shopkeepers informed BJP employees to go away after they went to get the store house owners to down shutters on Monday morning.

At the assault, Karamjeet Singh, a farmer taking part in Monday’s dharna, mentioned, “Tearing off anyone’s garments isn’t just right however our union contributors by no means did this. We simplest do symbolic protest. It kind of feels BJP employees stage-managed by means of letting their very own males strip Narang, and later blamed farmers.”

Nirmal Singh from Punjab Kisan Union mentioned, “It kind of feels some anti-social components entered the protest and ripped off the MLA’s garments…farmers by no means delight in such violence.”

BKU’s Sukhdev Singh mentioned, “When we have now already introduced that we will be able to now not let any BJP chief cling any public assembly, what was once the purpose of (Narang) coming right here? A couple of days in the past, we had protested in opposition to the similar MLA in Tarmala village of Malout…and he became up once more. We don’t inspire any violence in our protests. We can proceed our protests in opposition to BJP in a calm way.“

On Monday afternoon, a delegation of 5 farmers went to fulfill the Muktsar SSP and different district cops however the talks didn’t yield outcome instantly. The dharna was once lifted simplest later within the night, after cops went to the website online.

Rajpal Singh Hundral, SP (investigations), Muktsar, informed The Indian information that there were no additional arrests. “As for the criticism {that a} useless farmer has been incorporated within the FIR, we will be able to examine it. Farmers had staged dharna for the entire day however lifted it past due within the night. We confident them of honest investigation; their apprehensions had been replied. We don’t seem to be going to arrest any person who was once now not provide on the spot that day. Our investigation in terms of try to homicide and attack of MLA is occurring.”

In the meantime, the 4 arrested on Sunday had been produced in court docket on Monday and had been despatched to judicial custody.