Farmers Movement Archive

Now, farmers deny entry to AAP MLA

BATHINDA: After BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress functionaries facing the wrath of the farmers over new agriculture laws, the Aam Aadmi Party too is facing the heat. Noticeably, during their eight-day protest, farmers have not allowed representatives of any political party to address them from their stages. On Thursday, irate young farmers laid siege to AAP MLA Budh Ram’s vehicle at Barey village in Budhlada assembly constituency represented by him. The farmers did not allow the MLA to enter the village and asked him what his party had done for them and why its government in Delhi was not doing anything there for the farmers against the new farm laws enacted by the Union government. Earlier, protesting farmers had not allowed AAP MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer to sit on their stage at Barnala Railway station. Holding protests at the residences of BJP MP, MLAs, farmers have also taken on Congress MLA Pritam Singh Kotbhai at Goniana in Bathinda and Congress ex-MLA Harchand Kaur at village Raisar in Barnala. At many villages, banners of disallowing SAD leaders have been been put up. A score of farmers asked MLA Budh Ram why he has come to their village “when he had not raised voice in favour of farmers when they were in trouble and fighting a big battle”. When contacted, Budh Ram said some misguided youth, who did not know what AAP was doing against the new laws, were raising slogans against the party. “They must know that our state president Bhagwant Mann had strongly opposed the legislations in Parliament and we are opposing these on the roads,” he added.

The Times of India

2020-10-09

Chandigarh