Lashing out at BJP-JJP -led coalition Government for police action against the agitating farmers at Pipli, Kurukshetra, senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday extended his support to farmers who are protesting against the Centre’s agriculture ordinances and demanded FIRs registered against the protesters to be withdrawn immediately.
He threatened to launch a statewide stir if the cases registered against them are not withdrawn in the next 10 days.
Talking to reports in Kurukshetra, Hooda flayed the BJP, JJP leaders for depriving the farmers of their fundamental rights. “Though it is a farmers’ movement, the Congress will continue to support them,” former Chief Minister added.
He said the police action against farmers reminded him of the Kandela episode. “The BJP-JJP will have to face severe consequences for using force on farmers,” he added. The leader of opposition in the Assembly said the Congress will also hold a state-level rally in support of farmers at Pipli in the near future.
Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president Kumari Selja, who also addressed the press conference in Kurukshetra along with an injured farmer, said this incident has exposed the anti-farmer policies of the BJP-JJP government. She said the ordinances were framed to benefit the corporate houses by forcing farmers to sell their produce according to prices set by them.
Selja also alleged that the government’s ordinances will promote contract farming. She has demanded that the government should withdraw the FIRs registered against the protesters.