Angry over arrests, BKU burns Haryana Government effigies

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, November 24

Irked over the arrest of farmers in Haryana ahead of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation, farmers under the banner of the BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) today burnt an effigy of the Khattar government at various protest sites in Bathinda district.

BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) district president Shingara Singh Mann condemned the Haryana government for arresting farmers last night in a bid to stop them from going to Delhi.

Mann said the farm unions had given the call of the Delhi march to mark their protest against the three controversial farm laws on November 26, but the Khattar government in Haryana was arresting farm leaders to weaken their movement.

He said they would march towards Delhi as per the plan and if the Haryana Government tried to stop them, they would stage a protest there only.