Tikri, December 15
After keeping politicians at bay, farm union leaders have now said they won’t allow their protest to become a religious platform.
With members of various religious organisations turning up in support of the farmers, union leaders today decided not to let anyone indulge in religious symbolism.
In one such move, Balbir Singh Rajewal, while conveying the decision of 32 farm bodies, asked Nihangs camping near barricades to move to some other place. “There is no war at present. Whenever there will be one, we will call you. It is a peaceful struggle,” he said, while asking the Nihangs not to practise martial arts at the protest site. Nihang leader Deep Singh Khalsa said they had come to support farmers. “The leaders because of their selfish interests want us to go back,” he alleged.