Farmers Movement Archive

BJP leader gheraoed in Barnala

Bathinda: Finding it difficult to organise political events due to opposition from farmers, BJP state unit has asked senior party leaders to visit various places in Punjab to take on the state government, which has completed four years. Farmers take on BJP leaders wherever they get to know about any of them attending a political or social event. A day after laying siege to a hotel in Bathinda where former minister Surjit Kumar Jyani had gone to launch an attack on the state government, farmers laid siege to the PWD Rest House in Barnala, where BJP state vice-president Parveen Bansal had gone to address a press conference. Hundreds of activists of farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) sat on the road and raised slogans against the Narendra Modi government. Later, activists of other farm organisations also reached the spot. Speaking to mediapersons inside the rest house, Parveen Bansal said the farm laws were in favour of farmers, who had been misled by certain forces inimical to peace. Meanwhile, Bansal was allowed to go around 5 pm after he came out and assured that farmers’ demands would be put before the party high command.

The Times of India

2021-03-28

Chandigarh