Youth BJP burns effigies of Capt Amarinder Singh, Rahul Gandhi in Panchkula

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, September 15

Workers of the Youth BJP today burnt the effigies of Capt Amarinder Singh and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi at Shalimar Chowk to register their protest against the Punjab Chief Minister’s request to agitating farmers to protest outside Punjab.

Sanjay Sharma, media in-charge for the state BJP unit, told the party workers that Punjab CM’s statement has unmasked the “real face of the Congress” and it is a proof that their leaders were provoking farmers for their own political gains.

“It’s high time that every party worker should come together to uproot the Congress from the country,” he said. “The entire movement of so-called farmers is being sponsored by the Congress to derail Haryana’s economy,” he added.

Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday had appealed farm unions not to protest in Punjab and shift their agitation to Haryana or Delhi instead, considering its financial impact on the state’s economy.

His statement attracted a sharp criticism from Haryana ministers as well as leaders.