Farmers bring machines from Punjab to sanitise protest sites

Jhajjar, May 15

Protesting farmers on Saturday sanitised the protest site at Tikri border two days after Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar blamed the ongoing farmers’ protest at Delhi borders for the spike in Covid cases in rural areas.

Three spray machines were specially brought from Punjab which today sanitised half of the protest site spread over 12 km from Jakhoda bypass in Bahadurgarh to Tikri border. The rest of the area will be covered tomorrow.

“No death due to Covid has taken place at Delhi borders for the past five months, yet we had to call spray machines from Ludhiana and Bathinda districts in Punjab to sanitise the protest site so that the Haryana CM does not blame farmers again for the spread of Covid. However, his statement was illogical and far from the truth,” said Lakhwinder Singh, a BKU (Rajewal) leader.

Lakhwinder Singh alleged the district authorities were requested many times to ensure cleanliness and to sanitise the protest site so as to prevent any possibility of spread of Covid infection but the authorities did not pay heed.