Haryana police action on protesting farmers: 2-hour road blockades across Punjab on Day 2
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Haryana police action on protesting farmers: 2-hour road blockades across Punjab on Day 2
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BATHINDA: Angry over the Haryana police action on protesting farmers at the toll plaza near Karnal in the neighbouring state on Saturday, farm activists in Punjab blocked vehicular traffic across the state for two hours till 2pm. Activists of various farm organisations blocked national and state highways across the state and raised slogans against BJP’s Haryana and Union governments. They also demanded immediate dismissal of Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha, accusing him of giving orders to police to hit heads of the protesters if they tried to break police barricades to move ahead. At many places, the effigies of Haryana government were also burnt. On Saturday too, similar scenes were witnessed in Punjab. Farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan alleged that the Haryana government was acting in a dictatorial manner and the way it attacked the farmers had unmasked its true face. Farm group BKU (Ekta Dakaunda) president Buta Singh Burjgill said BJP would have to pay for its misdeeds of mercilessly beating up farmers and not listening to miseries of those sitting at the borders of Delhi for over nine months. The farmers would teach them a lesson in coming assembly elections in UP, Uttarakhand and Punjab, he added.
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The Times of India
Date
2021-08-30
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Amritsar