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Sanyukt Kisan Morcha condemns police action in Karnal, Amritsar

BATHINDA: The lathicharge on protesting farmers in Haryana’s Karnal was uncalled for, that too on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurating the refurbished historic Jallianwala Bagh, where innocent people were killed by Britishers in 1919, Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has said. It condemned the police action in Amritsar too. Police used force at Amritsar in Punjab to stop farm activists from heading towards Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the PM’s virtual programme. The protesters contested Modi’s “moral right” to get involved in the event, the morcha added. In the meanwhile, the protesting farmers in Punjab expressed their anger and support to Haryana farmers by burning effigies of Haryana government at various places. The effigy was also burnt near a private firm’s dry port at Kila Raipur in Ludhiana and at Tikri border. Farm organisation BKU Ekta Ugrahan president Joginder Singh Ugrahan said: “The way the official is heard asking policemen to hit on the head (of) those trying to go towards BJP event, (it seems the government) want(s) another Jalianwala Bagh to be made. This shows the real face of BJP, but farmers will not stop protesting.” Another SKM leader Darshan Pal said Haryana police were targeting peaceful protesters and SKM, taking serious note of it, would not sit back. BKU’s Rakesh Tikait said it was tactic of BJP government to stop farmers from Haryana from going to Muzzafarnagar on September 5, where ‘Mission UP’ was being started. Seeks SDM’s sacking:SKM demanded the immediate dismissal of Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha for allegedly giving orders to police to attack farmers. It brought disgrace and shame to the Indian democracy and the farm movement could not be suppressed by such barbaric acts, it added

The Times of India

2021-08-29

Amritsar