Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee put off move to gherao Punjab ministers, MLAs' houses

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 7

The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee has postponed the move to gherao the residences of Punjab ministers and MLAs to January 11. Earlier, farmers’ unions gave a call to hold a protest on January 8. A meeting of the core committee of the KMSC was held here on Friday.

Leaders of the union had given the call to gherao houses of ministers and MLAs of the Punjab Government on January 8 for implementing the poll promise made by the Congress with the farming community before the Assembly elections in 2017.

Following the prediction of rain and bad weather conditions, the farm unions decided to gherao residences of ministers and MLAs on January 11.

Sarwan Singh Pandher, state general secretary of the union, stated that as per the decisions taken in the meeting of the core committee chaired by state president Satnam Singh Pannu, the residences of Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, ministers and MLAs, including that of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, would be ghearoed to fulfil their demands accepted by the Punjab Government during a meeting held earlier.

Satnam Singh Pannu alleged that the breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security was a deliberate attempt of the BJP to polarise the majority community in the country. He strongly condemned the BJP propaganda for endangering the lives of people and said the BJP was trying to create divisions in religions by misrepresenting the incident.

“They will not be allowed to succeed at any cost. The cancellation of the rally may be due to the low turnout, bad weather and other reasons. There is a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of Punjab,” said Pannu.

“The farmer unions are protesting peacefully on the issue of forming a committee on the MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP, punishing the culprits of the Lakhimpur Khiri incident and releasing the arrested farmers in the case,” he added.

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