Farmers voiced their discontent by waving black flags at Preneet Kaur, the BJP candidate from the Patiala Lok Sabha seat, and chanting slogans towards the BJP-led central authorities whereas she addressed get together employees in Samana city on Sunday. The protesting farmers, related to Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) and Kirti Kisan Union, staged an indication towards Kaur upon her arrival in Samana for the get together occasion.
In response to police sources cited by information company PTI, just a few demonstrators had been detained briefly and later launched.
At Samana (Patiala), farmers gathered to point out black flags to BJP candidate Praneet Kaur had been detained.
Farmers blocked the Patiala Hisar freeway passing in entrance of Samarat Palace, surrounded the bus of detained farmers and compelled them to depart. #Boycottbjp pic.twitter.com/4Lp04NfhJu
— Surjeet Singh Phul (@phool_surjeet) April 14, 2024
Farmers had beforehand protested towards Kaur. Farmers additionally protested towards BJP candidates Hans Raj Hans and Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who’re from Faridkot and Amritsar, respectively, just a few days in the past. After they had been campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, they had been confronted with black flags.
Underneath the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), farmers have pledged to oppose the BJP and urge individuals to “punish” the saffron get together within the Lok Sabha elections.
SKM, which led the 2020-21 farmers’ protest, has formulated an 11-point questionnaire demanding causes for the absence of a authorized assure for Minimal Assist Worth (MSP) and restrictions on farmers’ entry to Delhi.
Kaur, the present MP of Patiala, not too long ago joined the BJP and is contesting from the identical constituency. She was suspended by the Congress in February final yr following her husband Amarinder Singh’s resolution to hitch the BJP. Kaur has beforehand represented the Patiala seat in 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2019.
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‘Centre Considerably Benefited Punjab Farmers’: BJP’s Ravneet Singh Bittu Dismisses Protests
Ravneet Singh Bittu, the BJP candidate from Ludhiana, dismissed the protests towards get together nominees in some Punjab villages as “politically motivated.” He asserted that the BJP authorities on the Centre has considerably benefitted Punjab farmers over the previous decade.
Quite the opposite, the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP authorities in Punjab has performed nothing for the farmers, the three-time MP claimed.
Throughout their meeting election marketing campaign in 2022, AAP leaders claimed that if voted to energy, their authorities would give MSP on all 22 crops and deal with different farmers’ calls for instantly, Bittu claimed.
Nevertheless, he claimed that nothing had been performed for the Punjabi individuals by the Mann administration. The BJP chief opined that the “politically motivated” protest towards get together candidates would section out finally.