Khattar apprises Amit Shah of farmer-police clash in Hisar

Chandigarh, May 17

A day after a violent clash between protesting farmers and the Haryana Police in Hisar, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday in New Delhi and apprised him of the incident.

Khattar said the BJP leadership agreed that the protesting farmers should not have opposed the inauguration of a Covid hospital.

“The main agenda of the meeting was to discuss the second wave of Covid and the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the three Central laws,” he told the media.

“The meeting was broadly about two issues — Haryana’s preparedness to handle the second wave of Covid in the coming days and the farmers’ agitation. I have apprised the central leadership of the incident and it says the protesters should not have opposed the inauguration of a Covid hospital,” Khattar said.

A violent crash broke out between farmers and the police on Sunday after a group of farmers tried to march towards the venue of a programme in Hisar, where Khattar had gone to inaugurate a hospital.

Many, including several police personnel, got injured in the incident.

He said he was informed at the meeting that the Centre was importing medicines for black fungus cases reported in Covid patients, which would be distributed among states. — TNS