Farmers burn effigies of PM Modi, Manohar Lal Khattar, BJP-JJP leaders

Karnal, October 15

On the call of the SKM, hundreds of farmers on Friday burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar, Deputy Chief Minister, Dushyant Chautala and other senior BJP leaders on Dasehra at various places in Karnal and Kaithal districts.

Protest to continue

On the call of the SKM, farmers burnt the effigies of PM, Haryana CM, Deputy CM, Ambani and Adani. The farmers will continue to protest till their demands are met. Malkit Singh, BKU (charuni), Ambala president

In Karnal, they burnt the effigy at the Bastara toll plaza, Committee Chowk and other places, while the farmers in Kaithal burnt the effigies outside the grain market.

Farmers said they had been protesting against the farm laws for the past 10 months, but the government was not listening to their issues, so they burnt the effigies of the PM, CM and other BJP-JJP leaders.

“The government is not listening to our demands, so we have burnt the effigies of the PM, CM and other leaders on Dasehra, so that the government could understand the issues of the farmers,” said Jagdeep Singh Aulakh, member, state core committee, BKU. Meanwhile, infuriated over the procurement below the MSP, farmers blocked the Jind-Kaithal road near the new extension grain market. They were demanding to allow the rice millers of the Cheeka area for the purchase. After a meeting with the DC, Pardeep Dahiya, farmers got pacified and lifted the blockade in the evening.

In Ambala, farm activists burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal and other BJP leaders on the occasion of Dasehra in Ambala and Kurukshetra.

In Kurukshetra, farmers burnt the effigies near Umri village, Ambedkar Chowk Ladwa, Sunaria Chowk Babain, old grain market Pehowa, Isamailabad and Shahabad. In Ambala, farmers burnt effigies at Lakhnaur Sahib village.

Farm activists raised slogans against the BJP leaders and said that they had burnt the effigies of the leaders instead of Ravana. — TNS