Farmers protest Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar’s Karnal visit

Tribune News Service

Karnal, June 25

Four farmers were detained for allegedly opposing the visit of Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar to Panchayat Bhawan here today. He was in the city to chair the district grievances redressal meeting.

When farmers learnt about the minister’s visit to the city, they started assembling near National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI).

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Apprehending trouble, the police detained four farmers, including BKU (Charuni) leader Bhadur Singh Mehla and BKU president (Indri block) Manjeet Singh.

This made farmers angry and they protested outside Panchayat Bhawan. Subsequently, the police released the detained farmers.

Mehla said farmers would continue to oppose the visit of BJP-JJP leaders until the three laws were repealed by the Centre.

During the district grievances redressal meeting, Gujjar heard 12 matters out of 15, and resolved 11.

In Kaithal as well, farmers were detained for opposing a BJP’s programme.

Protester dies at Tikri

Jhajjar: A 75-year old farmer, identified as Balvir Singh of Budh Singh Wala village in Moga district (Punjab), died at the Tikri border in the wee hours of Friday. He had been staying at the border for more than 10 days. Civil Surgeon Dr Sanjay Dahiya said, “Balvir was brought dead to the trauma centre, Bahadurgarh. The cause of death is yet to be ascertained.” TNS