Farmers stage protest in Rajpura over hostage row
PATIALA/SANGRUR/CHANDIGARH: Farmers under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) blocked the national highway at Rajpura on Tuesday against the police for allegedly rescuing BJP workers taken hostage by them two day ago.
Farmers gathered at the Patiala-Chandigarh highway and raised slogans against police and BJP workers. Twelve BJP leaders of the party’s Rajpura unit in Patiala district, who had been taken hostage by farmers since Sunday, were rescued on Monday after the Punjab and Haryana high court and the Union home ministry intervened.
Also, BJP workers staged a protest in Patiala against Congress government for not taking action against farmers who allegedly assaulted party workers two days ago.
Protest against BJP
Farmers under the banner of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) opposed Sangrur district unit of the BJP
and held a protest outside the police lines where the saffron party leaders reached to submit a memorandum to the SSP seeking security of party workers and action against farmers who gheraoed their leaders across the state on Tuesday.
Sukhbir hits out at Capt
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday hit out at chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh for “hosting”
the BJP delegation while giving a “royal ignore” to other suffering sections of the society.
In a statement, Sukhbir said the chief minister’s priorities have revealed whose writ runs in the state. “Capt Amarinder heads a proxy BJP government in Punjab. He has time for only the BJP leaders. Even a mofussil-level BJP worker can walk straight into his office which even his colleagues in the government dare not do,” he said.