Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Singh Chautala on Wednesday separately met protesting farmers at Tikri border saying that the entire country stands with them against the Centre’s new farm laws.Selja, who had met the farmers near Singhu border, extended full support to their ongoing agitation.
Interacting with farmers, she said: “It is extremely unfortunate that the “annadata” (farmers) of our country are compelled to agitate on the roads in this cold weather, but the Central Government is adamant on its stand…The government should immediately repeal these black laws.”
Selja, a former Union Minister, alleged that the BJP-led Government at the Centre is adopting a dictatorial attitude. It neither heard the opposition’s nor the farmers’ voice and “imposed these black laws on the peasants”, she claimed.
INLD secretary general Abhay Singh Chautala also reached Tikri border to extend support to farmers'' agitation. “Today, I have not come here as a politician or MLA, but I am here as a farmer,” he said while addressing the farmers at the protest site.
He said that the INLD had raised its voice when the Government promulgated the three agricultural ordinances before these were introduced as bills. The INLD, which demands that the farm laws be rolled back, stands firmly behind the farmers, he said.