Farmers’ stir | BKU Ekta Ugrahan leader says they won’t observe fast as decided by other unions
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“We did nothing wrong. We had just organised an event demanding their (jailed activists) release on Human Rights Day on Thursday,” Sukhdev Singh stated.
Leaders of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), who had organised an occasion to demand the discharge of jailed activists final week, have decided to distance themselves from the one-day starvation strike name given by 32 farmer unions from Punjab on Monday.
Sukhdev Singh, Punjab common secretary of BKU Ekta Ugrahan, stated that Ugrahan leaders is not going to observe fast. “We will not participate (in one-day hunger strike),” Mr. Sukhdev advised PTI.
Farmer unions, most of them from Punjab, have began their starvation strike in opposition to the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines. Also, they have given a name to stage dharnas at district headquarters throughout the nation.
Photographs of some protesters on the Tikri border seen holding posters demanding launch of activists arrested underneath numerous expenses had gone viral, prompting Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to say that these “anti-social elements” are conspiring to spoil the ambiance of the peasants’ motion underneath the guise of farmers.
“We did nothing wrong. We had just organised an event demanding their (jailed activists) release on Human Rights Day on Thursday,” Sukhdev Singh stated.
The authorities on Friday requested protesting farmers to be vigilant in opposition to their platform being misused, saying some “anti-social” as nicely as “Leftist and Maoist” parts are conspiring to spoil the ambiance of the agitation even as the protesters caught to their calls for.
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