JJP tenders apology for lathicharge on farmers

CHANDIGARH : The Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), the coalition partner of the BJP in Haryana, on Friday tendered an apology for the lathicharge on protesting farmers in Kurukshetra last week.

Digvijay Chautala, who is younger brother of deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala and president of INSO, the youth wing of the JJP, said the “JJP apologises to the farmers subjected to lathicharge.”

He said, “JJP was always with the farmers...and interests of the farmers are always supreme for the party. After watching the video of lathicharge on farmers, the first thing we did was to condemn the incident as it was wrong.”

He said the JJP had also demanded an inquiry into who issued orders for the lathicharge. “The police were wrong to resort to lathicharge,” he said. Stating that the Central and state governments had already made it clear that foodgrains will continue to be procured under minimum support price (MSP), Digvijay said some political parties were misleading farmers. He dared the Congress to ‘prove’ if deputy CM Dushyant Chautala had any role in the lathicharge. Oppn misleading farmers over agri bills:CM

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday assured farmers that the state government was committed to procure crops on minimum support price (MSP) and there will be no change in the functioning of mandis.

Holding a virtual briefing, Khattar said the Opposition was misleading farmers about the three agriculture related bills introduced by the Central government in the Lok Sabha. ROHTAK: Farmers and commission agents on Thursday staged a protest in Jind’s Uchana Kalan against three agriculture-related ordinances promulgated by the Centre and to condemn the lathi charge on farmers at Pipli. The protesters gheraoed deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala’s office in Uchana Kalan but he was not present there. Farmers gherao deputy CM’s office in Jind