Scores of Punjab Congressmen, led by state unit president Sunil Jakhar, on Tuesday marched up to the martyr memorial in Chandigarh in protest against the Centre’s apathy towards the loss of precious
57 farmer lives during the ongoing farmer agitation against farm laws and placed 57 extinguished earthen lamps on ground.
“The Modi government has blood on its hands,” said Jakhar adding that this march and laying of 57 extinguished lamps by the Congress at a befitting martyr memorial in the State capital is to tell the Government to rise from its deep slumber and repeal
the three black farm laws at the earliest.
“The sacrifice of these farmers will not go in vain. They are no less martyrs. Punjab and Haryana farmers have led the battle for the nation from the front. The Centre’s insensitivity towards the farmers’ cause will not last long,” said Jakhar.
The state Congress chief said that the agitation has crossed way beyond 100 days with farmers being harassed and facing the bone-chilling winter months out in the open. “If the Government’s intent is sacrosanct, the several rounds of talks with farmer representatives would not have remained inconclusive,” he said.
Jakhar said that the Martyr Memorial in Chandigarh is a tribute to the brave soldiers who laid down their lives for the nation.
The Centre should expeditiously clear the logjam before the situation worsens, he maintained.