Three more farmers destroy wheat crop

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar/Jind, February 24

Three farmers today destroyed their crops in protest against the controversial agricultural laws, even as BKU leaders Rakesh Tikait and Gurnam Singh Charuni have appealed to them to desist from such actions as, they have said, these would not serve any purpose.

The incidents were reported from Jind, Charkhi Dadri and Kaithal districts. A farmer from Hisar district was stopped from levelling his crop.

Balraj, a farmer from Jind’s Dharoli village, destroyed his wheat crop spread over one acre and donated the harvested crop to a “gaushala”.

“Farmers have been protesting on the Delhi borders for three months, but the Centre has been ignoring their pleas. Its dictatorial attitude has exposed its devious design of allowing the corporate companies to grab the land of farmers,” he said.

Angry that farmers’ produce have failed to fetch remunerative prices, Om Prakash of Charkhi Dadri’s Charkhi village his four-acre wheat crop.

“I have kept one-acre wheat crop for my family and destroyed the rest. I am pained at the injustice being meted out to farmers by PM Modi,” he said while running a tractor on the crop.

In Hisar’s Khanda Kheri village, farmers stopped their friend Shiv Kumar Sharma from destroying his crop. He said he was upset at the “dictatorial” attitude of the Centre and had no intention of selling off his produce. But the timely intervention of his friends forced him to abandon his plan.

In Kaithal district, Virender Kundu destroyed wheat crop sown on 1.5 acres.