Farmer leader Gurnam Charuni floats political party to fight Punjab polls

Chandigarh, December 18

Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni on Saturday floated his political party and said it will contest the Punjab Assembly polls next year as their aim is to “purify” politics and bring good people forward.

Charuni was a member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 40 farm unions that led an over a year-long farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s three agriculture laws, which have now been repealed.

 “We are launching the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party,” he told the media here, adding that it will contest the Punjab Assembly polls.                    

 “Our objective will be to purify politics and bring good people forward,” said Charuni, who is also the president of the Haryana Bhartiya Kisan Union.

Replying to a query, Charuni said he will not contest the polls in Punjab.

On entering into an alliance with any party, he said there is no decision yet in this regard but his party will try to contest all 117 Assembly seats in the state.                         

On the occasion, he slammed political leaders, saying they frame policies in “favour of capitalists while ignoring interests of the poor”.

Politics is responsible for the “capturing of the country by capitalists” and also for making it difficult for a common man to fulfil his basic needs, the farmer leader asserted.

He said there is a need to bring a change and to oust those people who are “looting” the country.

The Sanyukt Sangharsh Party will be a secular one, he said, adding that it will work for the welfare of all sections of society.

He stressed bringing changes in the farming sector in the state for creating more employment opportunities and sowing such crops that have demand in the international market. 

Farming business starting from sowing till the produce reaches consumers should be in farmers’ hands, he said. — PTI