Farmers burn effigies of Modi, Khattar, BJP-JJP leaders

Tribune News Service

Karnal, October 15

On the call of the SKM, hundreds of farmers on Friday burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar, Deputy Chief Minister, Dushyant Chautala and other senior BJP leaders on Dusshera at various places in Karnal and Kaithal districts.

In Karnal, they burnt the effigy at the Bastara toll plaza, Committee Chowk and other places, while the farmers in Kaithal burnt the effigies outside the grain market.

Farmers said they had been protesting against the farm laws for the past 10 months, but the government was not listening to their issues, so they burnt the effigies of the PM, CM and other BJP-JJP leaders.

“The government is not listening to our demands, so we have burnt the effigies of the PM, CM and other leaders on Dasehra, so that the government could understand the issues of the farmers,” said Jagdeep Singh Aulakh, member, state core committee, BKU.

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Road outside grain market blocked in Kaithal

Infuriated over the procurement below the MSP, farmers blocked the Jind-Kaithal road near the new extension grain market. They were demanding to allow the rice millers of the Cheeka area for the purchase. After a meeting with the DC, Pardeep Dahiya, farmers got pacified and lifted the blockade in the evening.

Hoshiar Singh Gill, district president, BKU (Charuni), said farmers were being forced to sell their produce at Rs 1700-1800 by the local purchasers. The purchasers from Cheeka were giving good prices to farmers, but they were stopped to continue purchase in the Kaithal mandi. “We are demanding MSP and to allow the buyers from Cheeka so that the farmers could get the MSP,” he said.