All must support farmers: Navjot Singh Sidhu

Tribune News Service

Patiala/Amritsar, May 25

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday hoisted the black flag in support of the farmers’ protest at his Patiala residence. He was accompanied by his wife and former MLA Navjot Kaur. “For the past three decades, farmers have been 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.

Stand by them

I will continue to protest the central agricultural laws and stand in solidarity with my farmer brothers. - Navjot Singh Sidhu, Congress Leader

“I will continue to protest these laws, and stand in solidarity with my farmer brothers,” said Sidhu, who is camping at his ancestral home in Patiala. “Hoisting the black flag in protest... every Punjabi must support the farmers,” read Sidhu’s Twitter post.

Sidhu has shifted his focus from Amritsar to his birthplace Patiala in 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 the central and his government, be it its failure to curb land, sand and liquor mafia.

Meanwhile, Sidhu’s daughter Rabia Sidhu also hoisted a black flag at their residence in Amritsar. She raised the flag as an endorsement of her father’s protest against the three farm laws. However, she refrained from speaking to the media, which was denied entry, on the premises.

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