Farmers block traffic in anticipation of BJP leader

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, December 18

Members of various farmer unions gathered at the Company Bagh chowk to protest against BJP leader Shwait Malik who was expected to arrive here on Friday. Though the farmers held a dharna and protested for long expecting the arrival of the leader, he did not turn up at the site. They held up traffic at the Company Bagh and also burnt an effigy of the Central Government.

Members of farmer organisations, including the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Rajewal), the Kirti Kisan Union, the Pendu Mazdoor Union and others, were present on the occasion. Leaders of various unions declared that the farmers’ protests would continue till the three farm laws were withdrawn, Electricity Bill 2020 was withdrawn, and other demands were met. Farmers, activists and little girls protested with posters reading “Kheti kanoon radd karo”, “Tennu Dilliye ikatth pareshan karuga, hun faslan de faisle kisan karuga”.

Mandeep Singh Samra and Kulwinder Singh Machiana of the BKU (Rajewal), Kashmir Singh Ghugshore of the Kirti Kisan Union and Dalit leaders Ramesh Chaheku, among others, addressed the gathering and raised slogans against the Central Government.