'Every Punjabi must support farmers': Navjot Singh Sidhu after hoisting black flag at Patiala residence

Aman Sood
Tribune News Service
Patiala, May 25

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday hoisted the black flag, in support of the farmers’ protest, at his Patiala residence.

The Congress leader was accompanied by his wife and former MLA Navjot Kaur. Sidhu’s daughter Rabia Sidhu also came forward to support the farmers’ protest.

“From the past three decades, Indian farmers are worried due to rising debts and dropping income. Farmers have been lied to, and now these new black laws have proved to be the last nail in the coffin”, said Sidhu.

“I protest against these laws, and stand in solidarity with my father brothers”, said Sidhu.

He is currently at his ancestral home.

“Hoisting the Black Flag in Protest…… Every Punjabi must support the Farmers !!”, read Sidhu’s Twitter post.

Meanwhile, Rabia hoisted the black flag at their Amritsar residence.   

She raised the flag at 9:30 am, as an endorsement of her father’s protest against the three farm laws enacted recently by the Centre government, demanding assured MSP and procurement through state government.

However, she refrained from speaking to the media, which was denied entry, on the premises.

Sidhu has shifted his focus from Amritsar to his birthplace Patiala for the past six months. 

He has been maintaining distance from the media, except for holding a couple of press conferences at his ancestral house in Patiala. 

Otherwise, he remains quite active on social media, and keeps launching scathing attacks on his government, be it its failure to curb land, sand and liquor mafia or the state government’s inability to extend a helping hand to the farmers who have been struggling against the corporate invasion into farming.

Lately, he has been sternly critical of the CM after the Punjab and Haryana High Court had quashed the probe into the 2015 Kotkapura firing and sacrilege incident.

Earlier, Sidhu had announced to hoist black flags atop his two houses on May 26, to demand the repeal of the three agricultural laws, as well as, express solidarity with the protesting farmers.

The ongoing Kisan Morcha at Delhi borders will complete six months on Wednesday.