Farmers Movement Archive

BJP sponsoring opposition to farmers’ protests: BKU(U)

With “local people” reportedly demanding that farmers vacate the protest sites near the Delhi borders, Joginder Singh, president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), one of the largest outfits in Punjab, on Friday said the BJP government at the Centre were sponsoring such acts. Mr. Singh told The Hindu that the government was playing dirty tricks to give an impression that the farmers’ movement was weakening, which, he said, “was only strengthening after the excesses committed by the government”. Mr. Singh said, “It’s all BJP’s plot. They have government in Haryana and they are planting their own people to speak against us — be it in Singhu or at Tikri. Two people had approached me at Tikri, asking our union to remove our stage. We told them that we were fighting for a cause for future generations, after which they left. We will not let the government be successful in their dirty tricks. We will expose the government.” “The government is committing excesses on farmers who are peacefully protesting on the borders of Delhi. What happened in Ghazipur is a clear example of these excesses. None of the farmers have done any damage to anyone, even the court has reiterated that protesting and staging ‘dharna’ is a democratic right of farmers, but the government was witch-hunting farmers,” he said. Mr. Singh said the government was trying to frame farmers by lodging fake cases against them. “Are farmers terrorists? We strongly condemn this,” Mr. Singh said.

The Hindu

2021-01-30

CHANDIGARH