Abhay Singh Chautala, Deepender Singh Hooda join ‘mahapanchayat’ slam Centre’s anti-farm policies
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Abhay Singh Chautala, Deepender Singh Hooda join ‘mahapanchayat’ slam Centre’s anti-farm policies
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CHANDIGARH: Some of the prominent Congress leaders from Haryana, including Abhay Singh Chautala and Deepender Singh Hooda, joined the ‘Loktantar Bachao Mahapanchayat’ organised in UP’s Muzaffarnagar on Thursday to protest against the lathicharge on Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) leader Jayant Chaudhary for seeking justice for the family victimised in the Hathras case. Addressing the gathering, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender appealed to the farmers to rise above the caste or community lines. “If the farmers do not organise themselves, they will be beaten up on roads and their crops would be beaten up in mandis. The BJP government has started doing both these things through the newly introduced farm laws,” he said Deepender. He said the BJP government wanted to suppress all those voices that are raised for the poor, farmers and labourers. Attack on Jayant Chaudhary, who was going to meet the Hatharas victim’s family, was one such example, he added. INLD’s secretary general and Ellenabad MLA Abhay said instead of bringing justice for the victim of Hathras incident, the UP government was trying to save the perpetrators. He said Jayant is not only Ajit Singh’s son but also the grandson of Chaudhary Charan Singh, who were farmers’ messiah. UP Police did not just lathicharge on Jayant, but every farmer, he said. The INLD leader appealed to the political parties present on the stage that the time has come again to rise above politics and mobilise against the oppressive policies of the BJP.
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The Times of India
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2020-10-09
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Chandigarh