Farmers Movement Archive

Anger simmers in Haryana over lathicharge on farmers in Karnal

BATHINDA: The farm groups from Punjab have taken exception to the claims of Haryana chief minister Manohal Lal Khattar and various ministers that Punjab and UP farmer leaders of instigating Haryana farmers. The farm groups said the Haryana CM and his ministers are choosing to ignore the anger and resolve of Haryana farmers at their own peril. They warned the political leaders of not to try to divide the farmers across the states and said farmers are united and will not succumb to such tactics. “The political class is worried over the cementing of bonds between farmers from adjoining states of Punjab and Haryana. The politicians wanted the divisions to remain vertical between them for the nefarious political designs, but they must keep it in mind that now as they have joined hands, nobody can divide them. As even the contentious SYL canal project and other bitter issues too have failed to divide them and Haryana politicians are using these failed tactics to create a wedge,” said BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan. BKU (Ekta Dakaunda) general secretary Jagmohan Singh said Haryana is trying to play mischief in which it will not succeed. The bonds between farmers from Haryana and Punjab are getting stronger than ever before and these tactics could not create differences. The farm groups also have taken a serious view of Khattar’s statement that it is the Punjab government which is behind the farmers’ protests and says this is one more insult to the farmers as the farmers don’t take any advice from any government. Meanwhile, the farmers say deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala is reported to be defending the brutal police action in a shameful manner in Karnal on August 28, though earlier he had spoken about action against the SDM. The farm groups and SKM reiterated that a case should be registered against Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha and all those involved in the assault on protesting farmers and their immediate dismissal. Haryana Police also needs to withdraw all cases filed against farmers, they said. The SKM has condemned the case filed at Ambala against Gurnam Singh Charuni and other farmers on Saturday, after they blocked highways in protest against the Karnal police brutality. The police brutality of the BJP-JJP government in Haryana is being condemned by spontaneous farmers’ protests not just in Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand but in various other states too, farm bodies said.

The Times of India

2021-09-01

Amritsar