Farmers Movement Archive

BJP asks DGP to act against Ludhiana MP

CHANDIGARH: Punjab BJP has demanded that DGP Dinkar Gupta should immediately order registration of an FIR against Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu for making alleged anarchist statements like “corpses will be uncountable if the farm bills are not withdrawn”. State BJP president Ashwani Sharma said on Tuesday his party leaders and workers would hold dharnas from January 2 outside the SSP offices in all districts till appropriate action is not taken against Bittu, who had been allegedly instigating the state’s harmony. Alleging that the DGP was also not ready to act against those attacking BJP leaders in the state, Sharma said, “We want a fair and just police force and not a stooge that panders to the state government.” Sharma said no one in the state had a right to take law and order in their hands. “The state police should take appropriate action against the atrocities being committed by the agitators to the BJP leaders and their families, who were suffering since the last three months,” he added. The Punjab BJP president said the state BJP had also given names of miscreants who indulged in vandalism on December 25 on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary in Bathinda. “If a case is not registered and the issue resolved, we will start an agitation in seven days,” warned Sharma. He also made it clear that the BJP was capable of taking care of itself and the core committee would be visiting the houses of all leaders whose houses were being gheraoed by forces that actually were not farmers.

The Times of India

2020-12-30

Chandigarh