BJP’s Gurdaspur nominee Babbu faces farmers’ wrath
The BJP candidates and leaders have been facing protests from the farmers who have shown them black flags when they were campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls. Party candidates Hans Raj Hans from Faridkot seat, Taranjit Singh Sandhu from Amritsar and Preneet Kaur from Patiala have already witnessed the anger of the farmers.
Farmers on Sunday protested against BJP candidate Dinesh Babbu in Batala and party leader Arvind Khanna in Barnala as the saffron party leaders continued to face their wrath over their “unmet” demands.
The BJP candidates and leaders have been facing protests from the farmers who have shown them black flags when they were campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls.
Party candidates Hans Raj Hans from Faridkot seat, Taranjit Singh Sandhu from Amritsar and Preneet Kaur from Patiala have already witnessed the anger of the farmers.
In Fatehgarh Churian in Batala, a group of farmers on Sunday raised slogans against Babbu, who is the BJP nominee from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat.
Police even tried to stop the protesters from heading towards the venue where Babbu and the BJP supporters were holding an election related programme.
One of the protesters at Fatehgarh Churian said they will continue to oppose the BJP leaders.
Reacting to the protest, BJP candidate Babbu said it was only his party which can resolve their issues while the other political outfits will “use” them for their vested interests.
“We are with the farmers and I am also a farmer. Their issues can be resolved through dialogue,” said Babbu.
In another incident, BJP leader Arvind Khanna faced the farmers’ protest in Barnala where he had gone to campaign.
A heavy police force was deployed and barricades were raised.
One of the woman protesters slammed the BJP government for not allowing the farmers to go towards Delhi and using “force” against them.
Another protester said they came to hold the protest against Khanna in a peaceful manner but the police personnel did not allow them to move towards the venue.
Khanna, however, alleged that it was not farmer outfits but the workers of the AAP who were “orchestrating” such protests.
“The farmers are either in their fields (for wheat harvesting) or mandis (for selling wheat). These outfits are the people of (chief minister) Bhagwant Mann and these are not farmers,” alleged Khanna, adding that the Modi government stands by the farmers.