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Centre wants farmers to shift movement’s base to Haryana from Delhi borders: Tikait

Tribune News ServiceHisar, June 3The Bhartiya Kisan Union leaders Rakesh Tikait and Gurnam Singh Charuni have come up with diverse views on the decision of a group of youth activists who gheraoed the house of the Tohana’s JJP MLA Devender Singh Babli in Tohana yesterday.The two prominent leaders who were on a visit to Jind district today in separate schedules, differed on the point whether ‘these activists’ should be termed as rebels or not.Gurnam Singh Charuni maintained that those who stormed out of the meeting of the SKM despite a collective decision in Tohana yesterday have turned rebels. “They were a handful of people. We took a decision after consultation with the farmers and the local committee of the SKM to gherao the police stations in Haryana. But later took decision to gherao the house of the MLA. This is a conspiracy to spoil the agitation,” he stated adding that even activists, with whom JJP MLA Babli had a verbal spat, agreed with the collective decision to give ultimatum to the government to register the case against the MLA till June 7.Later, while talking to the media at Khatkar toll plaza in Jind district, when asked about the arrest of some farmer activists in Tohana who were staging protest outside the Tohana’s JJP MLA Devender Singh Babli, Tikait had a different view than Charuni. Tikait said those who were arrested by the police from outside Babli’s residence cannot be termed as ‘rebels’. “They are also our people and part of the agitation. They went to MLA’s residence even though the meeting of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha had taken a decision to gherao the police stations on June 7 across Haryana. But we will correct them and make them realize that such steps are uncalled for,” he said.Tikait said Haryana police were registering criminal cases in different parts of Haryana so to provoke the farmers. “We understand the designs of the government which want the Haryana farmers get provoked. Even if the Haryana government register thousands of criminal cases against farmers, but let me make it clear that the agitation will continue on the Delhi borders,” he said.

The Tribune

2021-06-03