Farmers to greet BJP candidates in Punjab and Haryana with 11 questions
BJP is anti-farmer, anti-democratic, anti-federal and pro-corporate, and so it has to be stoutly opposed and exposed, they said
CHANDIGARH: The protesting farmers from Punjab and Haryana have decided to ask leaders and candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 11 questions whenever they are out campaigning during the Lok Sabha elections.
Among this is a poser on what happened during their latest agitation for a guaranteed Minimum Selling Price:
The committee comprising of five Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders — Balbir Singh Rajewal, Prem Singh Bhangu, Ravneet Singh Brar, Angrej Singh and Baldev Singh Nihalgarh — met in Chandigarh at the Kisan Bhawan and prepared a questionnaire for all the BJP candidates in the states.
Senior leader of SKM and President All India Kisan Federation, Prem Singh Bhangu and Harinder Singh Lakhowal president of BKU (Lakhowal), said that BJP is anti-farmer, anti-democratic, anti-federal and pro-corporate, and so it has to be stoutly opposed and exposed.
“It has no right to take the votes and should be opposed and questioned peacefully in a democratic way,” said Bhangu.
The farmer leaders appealed to the people to cast their vote in favour of candidates who are in a position to defeat the BJP candidates.
They said the eleven questions will be sent to farmers in both the states.
In most villages, farmers have been putting up posters that read, “Farmers are barred from entering Delhi, BJP is banned from entering villages.”
Another banner dedicated to young farmer Shubhkaran and pasted in several villages read, “What was my fault? I was merely coming to Delhi remind you (Modi government) of your promises.”
Farmers are again at loggerheads with the Modi government after they gave a call for a ‘Delhi Chalo’ on February 13.
Many saffron party candidates like Preneet Kaur from Patiala, Hans Raj Hans from Faridkot, former ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who is standing from Amritsar in Punjab, and BJP MP and Rohtak candidate Arvind Sharma in neighboring Haryana as also Hisar candidate Ranjit Singh Chautala have faced farmers’ protests.
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