Karnal lathicharge: Haryana ex-CM Bhupinder Hooda to approach Governor, Kumari Selja NHRC

Chandigarh, August 30

Former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda will lead a delegation of MLAs to the Governor on Tuesday seeking a judicial inquiry into the lathicharge on the farm activists in Karnal, while state incharge Vivek Bansal and Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja will approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the same issue.

MLA seeks special session on laws

Karnal: Disturbed over the lathicharge incident, Assandh Congress MLA Shamsher Singh Gogi on Monday urged Speaker Gian Chand Gupta to call a special session of 2-3 days to discuss the new farm laws. He has sent a letter to the Speaker in this regard.

The lathicharge on farmers took place on Saturday.

Besides calling for a judicial inquiry, Hooda will also present a memorandum to Governor Bandaru Dattatreya against The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Haryana Amendment) Bill, 2021.

Bansal and Selja will submit a complaint to the NHRC “regarding the barbaric lathicharge on farmers”.

In a statement issued today, Selja said the delegation would include Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala, Congress Working Committee’s special invitee member and MP Deepender Singh Hooda, MLA and former leader of Haryana Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Kiran Choudhry, former minister Captain Ajay Singh Yadav and Congress secretary Virendra Rathore.

Selja said in the complaint, demand would be raised to register case against the officers who carried out “barbaric lathicharge on the farmers in Karnal on Saturday and against those who ordered the lathicharge”.

Along with this, the NHRC would also be apprised about the atrocities committed on the farmers in Haryana in the last year, she said. — TNS