Farmers Movement Archive

BJP misusing varsity campuses for political activities, says Samyukt Kisan Morcha

Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders have taken strong exception to university campuses “being used” by the ruling BJP for its political activities. They have called upon teaching and non-teaching bodies of the universities to raise their voice against the practice.“The BJP government in the state has found a safe spot in various university campuses for party meetings as the farmers are persistently resisting its leaders’ visits and other programmes to register their protest against the three farm laws,” said Inderjit Singh, a SKM leader and vice-president of All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), while addressing a group of farmers that had reached Tikri from Fatehabad on Monday.He maintained the BJP had organised its workers’ meet on the campuses of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, and Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Sirsa in the past two days.A meet was also organised on the campus of mini-secretariat in Jhajjar city on Saturday where they had to face stiff resistance from protesting farmers, he added.“The SKM wants to make it clear that it will not allow university campuses to be transformed into fiefdom by the BJP and will organise peaceful protests to stop the BJP from doing so,” said Singh.

The Tribune

2021-07-13

Jhajjar