Cong hold protest against farm Bills

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 21

Farmers, political parties and various outfits organised protests against the farm ordinances here on Monday.

District Congress Committee head Baldev Singh Dev and Jalandhar Central MLA Rajinder Beri led the protest against the Modi government at the Centre. Congress workers raised slogans against the Prime Minister and burnt his effigy on the occasion.

MLA Rajinder Beri said: “The Bills discriminate against farmers and open ways to ensure their exploitation”. Beri said the SAD was also shedding crocodile tears on the entire fiasco. They said Harsimrat Badal should have resigned when cabinet meeting was being held on the issue. This was not a time to tender resignation. He said the Congress stood behind farmers on the issue and woukld intensify the agitation in the coming days.

Salwinder Singh, district president of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee along with various farmers held protests at Jania village. He said the farmers would oppose the Bill till it was withdrawn. At Jalapur Khurd village, farmers protest against the Bills and burnt effigies of former Cabinet Minister Harsimrat Badal and the Modi government.