Farmer injured amid protests against Haryana CM Khattar

Two individuals, together with an aged farmer, have been injured in a conflict between agitating farmers and the police throughout Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal’s go to to Rohtak on Saturday.

The police, nonetheless, maintained that accidents have been precipitated throughout stone-pelting by the farmers and no power was used.

The farmers have been protesting against the Chief Minister’s go to as a part of their boycott of the BJP and its ally, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leaders within the State in view of the continued agitation against the three farm legal guidelines.

Superintendent of Police, Rohtak, Rahul Sharma advised The Puucho that an aged farmer and a policeman have been injured throughout stone-pelting by the farmers protesting against the Chief Minister’s go to. The injured farmer was offered medical support, he added.

Mr. Sharma stated the protest was dealt with in a peaceable method and there was no conflict.

“The farmers wanted to break through the barricades and enter the ground inside a university campus where the CM’s chopper was scheduled to land. In view of the protests, the CM later landed at Police Lines and went ahead with his programme in the city,” stated Mr. Sharma.

The protesters, nonetheless, claimed that the farmer was injured in a lathi-charge by the police.

The farmers had gathered outdoors Baba Mastnath University campus the place Chief Minister’s chopper was to land within the afternoon. Mr. Khattar was within the metropolis to attend a condolence assembly following the loss of life of the daddy of native Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sharma.

The umbrella farmers’ organisation, Samyukat Kisan Morcha, in a press assertion, condemned “unprovoked lathi-charge” on protesting farmers.

“Many farmers were injured. Given the continuous anti-farmer speeches and behaviour of Haryana BJP leaders and government — the insulted and angry farmers decided to protest peacefully with black flags and gathered in large numbers at Asthal Bohar. However, the police used force against the protestors injuring several protesters,” senior SKM chief Darshan Pal stated.

“The farmers, enraged by the highly disparaging remarks made during farmers’ agitation by BJP leaders, had assembled to peacefully show black flags to the Chief Minister. Even women protesters were manhandled by the male cops. Some protesters have received grievous injuries,” stated a press release issued by Haryana All-India Kisan Sabha vice-president Inderjit Singh.

The incident comes shut on the heels of an identical protest against Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala in Hisar on April 1.

Protests amid harvest

As harvesting of wheat is all set to start in Punjab and Haryana, farmers are shaping up a method to make sure that the build-up of protesters agitating against Centre’s agriculture legal guidelines at state borders surrounding Delhi doesn’t drop.

The SKM held a joint assembly of farmers, farm employees, girls, workers, college students, youth, fee brokers, academics, college employees and different organisations at Ludhiana based mostly Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) to plan a method for the agitation in the course of the upcoming harvesting season.

“More than 100 organisations took part in today’s meeting organised by PAU Teachers’ Union, PAU Employees’ Union and PAU Students’ Union. The meeting took cognisance of the fact that when farmers and farm workers attend to wheat harvesting in their farms, the Delhi protest sites have to continue to remain strong in terms of participation. While the farmers’ movement will not be weakened in any way, this meeting sought ways of strengthening the protest sites by the participation of non-farmer unions,” stated Mr. Pal.

Mr. Pal stated all members pledged to increase their full help in strengthening the motion. “The first meeting of “Punjab for Farmers”, a forum which got formed on this occasion will be held in Jalandhar on April 7in which the role and responsibility division will be taken up in greater detail,” he stated.

(With inputs from Vikas Vasudeva)