Leaders and volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) women wing in Punjab on Sunday faced water cannon while protesting against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for using abusive language and attacking women and farmers in Punjab and the entire country. Many women workers were later detained by the police.
The women volunteers raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and the BJP, while the Chandigarh police used batons and water cannons to stop the protesters from going to enter the Punjab BJP office in Sector 37.
AAP's women wing state president Rajwinder Kaur Thiara and youth leader Anmol Gagan Mann sustained serious injuries and had to be admitted to hospital.
Mann said that due to the Narendra Modi-led Central Government, the BJP workers have turned into goons. “These BJP goons are abusing and physically assaulting women in Punjab and across the country. The State Governments are avoiding taking action against these goons,” she added.
Thiara said that in the arrogance of power, the BJP’s goons have forgotten the country's values. “Even the police of the ruling party are assuming the atrocities on women and the farmers as their achievements,” she added.
She alleged that the police responsible for protecting the citizens of the country are supporting the goons and the state and central women's commissions are keeping silent on women's issues.
The Chandigarh police tried to stop the women volunteers on their way to the BJP office, but they broke through all the barriers and moved on. The Police used water cannons and cane-charged them; leaving many women injured, alleged Mann while adding that the police even kicked them in their stomach.