Roads Blocked, Protests In Punjab Over Police Motion On Haryana Farmers
Punjab: The protest in opposition to Haryana police motion brought about site visitors disruption at many puts. (Record)
Chandigarh:
Farmers blocked roads and highways in Punjab for 2 hours on Sunday in protest in opposition to the lathicharge on peasants in Haryana.
Owing allegiance to quite a lot of farmer our bodies, the protesters burnt the effigies of the BJP-led executive in Haryana for the use of “pressure” on farmers in Karnal.
Round 10 folks have been injured on Saturday as police allegedly lathicharged a bunch of farmers disrupting site visitors motion on a countrywide freeway whilst heading against Karnal to protest in opposition to a BJP assembly.
The 2-hour-long agitation in Punjab that began at 12 midday additionally brought about inconvenience to commuters, who were given caught in site visitors snarls at a number of puts.
The protest brought about disruption of vehicular site visitors at many puts and affected routes alongside the Jalandhar-Pathankot freeway, Ludhiana-Chandigarh freeway, Amritsar-Ganganagar freeway and Ferozepur-Zira highway.
Kisan Sangharsh Mazdoor Committee normal secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher strongly condemned the lathicharge on farmers through the Haryana police.
Throughout a protest in Amritsar, Mr Pandher mentioned Haryana Leader Minister Manohar Lal Khattar must renounce on ethical grounds as he has no proper to proceed at the publish after the police motion on farmers.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) staged protests at 56 puts within the state and castigated the “shameful” act of the Khattar executive.
In the meantime, Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu additionally condemned the Haryana police motion on farmers in Karnal.
“Deplorable attack at the protesting Farmers is an assault on Elementary Rights of each Indian…earned after innumerable sacrifices right through the liberty combat, It impinges and impedes at the spirit of the Charter and Breaks the Spine of India’s democracy!!” he mentioned in a tweet and in addition shared a video of “use of pressure” through police on farmers in Haryana.
Deplorable attack at the protesting Farmers is an assault on Elementary Rights of each Indian … earned after innumerable sacrifices right through the liberty combat, It impinges and impedes at the spirit of the Charter and Breaks the Spine of India’s democracy !! pic.twitter.com/7nqmDBx3Dm
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) August 29, 2021
Punjab Leader Minister Amarinder Singh had expressed surprise on Saturday on the “brazen brutality” of the Haryana police and had slammed Mr Khattar for “unleashing any such vicious attack at the peacefully protesting farmers”, lots of whom have been injured within the lathicharge.
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