Ellenabad: Farmers protest against BJP candidate Gobind Kanda

Tribune News Service

Hisar, October 7

Farmers staged a protest outside the SDM office in Ellenabad town in Sirsa district as the BJP candidate Gobind Kanda arrived to file his nomination papers, accompanied by BJP and JJP leaders, today.

The farmers said they were protesting against the BJP-JJP leaders as per the call of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). The heavy police force deployed outside the SDM office kept the protesting farmers away from the venue. They kept on raising anti-government slogans while waving black flags when the BJP leaders arrived at the office to file the nomination papers for the Ellenabad byelection.

The farmers also protested against a farmer activist Vikal Pachar who had announced to take the field in Ellenabad as a candidate of the Haryana Samyukta Kisan Morcha. The SKM, spearheading the farmers’ agitation, however, had denied fielding a candidate in the bypoll.