Patiala: Farmers in Punjab’s Rupnagar district protested on Saturday against PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, who visited Chamkaur Sahib and Morinda area of the district to meet Congress functionaries, including cabinet minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Later, during a brief interaction with the media where he spoke about low yields and low incomes in agriculture forcing farmers to agitate, he said, “Whenever the farmers call me, I will go to them barefoot and ask them to give suggestions on how the strength of our state can help the farmers’ agitation.” At Chamkaur Sahib, the farmers, raised slogans against him and waved black flags. They were protesting against Sidhu’s statement, made in the context of farmers, in which he had said a thirsty person goes to the well, the well doesn’t come to the thirsty person.