Unions burn PM Modi’s effigies across state

Tribune News Service

Bathinda/Muktsar, October 16

On call a given by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), scores of farmers and labourers, including a large number of women, staged protests against the Union Government and burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Ashish Mishra and corporate houses in villages of Bathinda and Mansa district. The protesters held agitations at village and block levels and raised slogans against the Centre.

Resham Yatri, a leader of the BKU Sidhupur, said, “Numerous pressure tactics have been used by the Centre but all of them have failed to dampen our spirit. Peacefully protesting farmers were mowed down and killed under vehicles at Lakhimpur Kheri in UP. We demand strictest punishment to the culprits. The protests were held in Yatri, Mandi Kalan, Chathewala, Jodhpur, Maisarkhana, Nagla, Sandoha, Kotra, Pitho, Kalyan, Jaga, Singo, Pakka Kala, Gurthari, Sekhpura, Phul, Lehra Mohabbat, Nehianwala and other villages in Bathinda and Mansa districts.”

“A conspiracy cannot be ruled out in the incident that took place at the Singhu border where a man was killed. The farm agitation will continue,” he added. In Muktsar, farmers lodging a protest outside Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal’s residence at Badal village here today burnt the effigy of Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at Badal village. They blamed them for the present situation of farmers. Effigies of PM Modi and Amit Shah were burnt in Fatehgarh Sahib and Sangrur as well.