Farmers Movement Archive

BJP ‘goons’ attacked farmers, claims AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday alleged that “BJP goons” attacked farmers at Singhu and Tikri borders and that they were not locals. The party further said that the BJP and the Delhi police “scripted” the violence on Republic Day. AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed the BJP has suspended Internet on the borders to “hide” the truth of their “assault” on the protesting farmers. “The police and the BJP together scripted the violence of January 26 and the days after. BJP leaders are the greatest anti-nationals and cases of sedition must be registered against them, and the NIA should probe their leaders,” he said. The leader said that from the time the BJP government came to power there have been several protests by students, Dalits, businessmen, lawyers and now farmers. “The BJP government plays the same script against all these protests. Whenever somebody protests against the BJP, the party calls them anti-nationals,” he said. Mr. Bharadwaj alleged that just before January 26, the BJP set up new camps near the protest sites. “The police allowed these people to set up camps and those camps were run by BJP agent Deep Sidhu,” he said.

The Hindu

2021-01-31

New Delhi