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.
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.
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SIRSA: Five farmers are under arrest after a “secret FIR” against the 100 who stormed the BJP district executive body’s Sunday meeting here.
Charges of sedition and attempt to murder have since been added. The FIR includes names of Haryana Kisan Manch state president Prahlad Singh Bharukhera and farmer unionist Harcharan Singh. In protest against this, the farmers blocked traffic at Bhumanshah Chowk in Sirsa before moving this sit-in to the office of the superintendent of police upon instructions from their unions. On Friday, they plan to burn effigies of ministers in every Sirsa village, while on Saturday, they will gherao the SP’s office after a Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) mahapanchayat.
BATHINDA/KURUKSHETRA: Taking serious note of attempts by Gurnam Singh Charuni, president of Haryanabased farm organisation BKU (Charuni), to push the farm struggle into political mode, the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Wednesday suspended him for a week. He has been warned not to say anything contrary to the morcha stand and will not be allowed to address gatherings from the SKM stage.
Charuni has been repeatedly asking Punjab-based farmer leaders to jump into the political arena, saying that there is a dire need to take forward ‘Mission Punjab’ while ‘Mission UP’ could wait. The 32 farm organisations in Punjab, in a meeting on Tuesday, opposed his agenda with a voice vote, preparing the ground for action against him.