Farmers hold sit-in protests outside residences of three senior BJP leaders
Chandigarh: The Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) on Saturday held sit-in protests outside the residences of three senior BJP leaders in Punjab on the fifth day of the farmers’ protest over their various demands, including a legal guarantee for MSP.
According to Kashmir Media Service, apart from holding dharnas outside the homes of former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, the BJP’s Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar and senior leader Kewal Singh Dhillon, the union will also hold protests at toll plazas in the state, extending support to the farmers’ “Delhi Chalo” call.
On the fifth day of their “Delhi Chalo” march — called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha — the farmers stayed put at the two border points of Punjab and Haryana as they press the Centre to accept their demands, including a legal guarantee of a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops.
The farmers from Punjab began their march to New Delhi on Tuesday but were stopped by security personnel at the Shambhu and the Khanauri points of Punjab’s border with Haryana. The protesters have stayed put at the two border points since then.
Indian ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai and farmer leaders will meet on Sunday for the fourth round of talks. The two sides met earlier on February 8, 12 and 15 but those talks remained inconclusive.
