Farmers gehrao residences of BJP leaders in Bathinda

Tribune News Service
Bathinda, October 14

The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta Ugrahan after lifting the protest from the rail tracks at Budhlada in Mansa district on Wednesday did a gehrao of BJP leaders residences from 12 to 3 pm in the Bathinda district.

A large number of BKU Ekta Ugrahan members today staged a protest outside the residence of BJP Bathinda president Vinod Kumar Binta in Bucho Mandi and outside the residence of BJP leader and vice president Municipal Council Rampura Makhan Jindal at Rampura in the district.

The protesters shouted slogans against the BJP-led Union government during the protest.

Addressing today’s dharna, BKU Ekta Ugrahan state secretary Harinder Kaur Bindu, district president Shingara Singh Mann, Harjinder Singh Baggi, Darshan Singh Maisarkhana, Basant Singh Kotha Guru, Jagdev Singh Jogewala and Kulwant Sharma said these laws are dangerous to society as a whole.

In fact, these laws are the tools to serve agriculture land to big corporate houses. These laws are death warrants for small and medium farmers, they said.

They also said that the Power Act 2020 was to deprive the states of their power rights and hand them over to the Central government after which the privatisation of power would accelerate and 400 units of electricity waiver for farmers’ farm motors and laborers will also be discontinued.

They demanded that all the debts incurred by the farmers and laborers who were unable to repay the loans should be forgiven. Crop prices should be fixed on C2 Formula along with 50 per cent profit added to the farmers at remunerative prices.

Union leaders also claimed that apart from these protests, union members today continued their protest outside private petrol pumps, a private thermal plant, toll plazas for the 14th day in the region.