Farmers build rooms, drill borewell at Tikri, booked

Blurb: Bid to scuttle protest, allege leaders

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, March 17

The Bahadurgarh police have registered two cases against farmers for illegally constructing concrete structures and digging borewells at Tikri. The action was taken on complaints by West Haryana Highways Projects Private Ltd and Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran.

Hitendra Sharma, Bahadurgarh SDM, said the administration had earlier appealed to the farmers not to indulge in such illegal acts.

Despite that, some people were found digging a borewell near Najafgarh flyover and constructing a structure on the road dividing Sectors 10 and 12 on Wednesday, forcing the authorities to file two separate cases against unidentified persons.

Sources said a team of administrative officials, which had gone to inspect the site near the flyover, had to face the wrath of farmers, who raised slogans against them and forced them to return.

Criticising the police action, farmers’ leaders allege that the government was trying to suppress their voice. Virendra Hooda of the BKU (Kisan Sarkar) said such actions won’t affect their enthusiasm in any manner and they would continue the protest till the farm laws were repealed.