Farmers Movement Archive

Kurukshetra: BJP leaders face farmers’ wrath

Kurukshetra, September 24BJP leaders faced a massive protest and the rear windscreen of Kurukshetra MP Nayab Saini’s SUV and a side glass of BJP MLA Subhash Sudha’s car were smashed during farmers’ protest in Kurukshetra on Friday evening. The BJP leaders were on their way to Saini Samaj Bhawan to attend a meeting of the OBC morcha.Even in April, the windscreen of MP Saini’s car had been smashed in Shahabad.On getting information about the event, the farmers gave the call of protest and sat in front of the bhawan. Meanwhile, heavy police force and a company of CRPF were deployed to maintain law and order. The police tried to remove the farmers but they resisted. Some of them were detained. After seeing policemen taking away some farmers, the others agreed to get aside and hold a peaceful protest from a distance.However, on seeing the BJP leaders coming, some farmers broke the barricades, showed black flags and some also surrounded the vehicles of the BJP leaders.Meanwhile, the windscreen of MP Nayab Saini’s SUV and the side glass of MLA Subhash Sudha’s car got damaged. However, the farmers claimed that the cars were damaged by BJP workers to defame farmers. MP Nayab Saini, Thanesar MLA Subhash Sudha and former minister Karan Dev Kamboj were in the MP’s car. The police had a tough time in providing safe passage to BJP leaders.After the incident, 25 farmers were detained and taken to the Police Lines where they were released.BKU (Charuni) district president Krishan Kumar said, “We were trying to hold peaceful protest and show black flags to the BJP leaders. Some farmers have suffered injuries as we were forcefully removed by the police.”MP Nayab Saini blamed the Congress for the incident and said that such hooliganism would not be tolerated. MLA Subhash Sudha alleged, “FIRs will be lodged and strict action will be taken against the Congress-backed protesters.”SP Himanshu Garg said, “The situation is being evaluated. All efforts are being made to maintain the law and order and resolve the matter peacefully. The entire incident will be investigated.”

The Tribune

2021-09-25