PROTESTING FARMERS blocked a number of roads together with nationwide highways in Haryana’s Jind, Rohtak and Hisar districts for some hours on Saturday night time and Sunday to specific resentment towards “lathicharge” on farmers in Rohtak at the same time as authorities insisted that police lathicharge didn’t happen there.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had confronted a large protest by farmers in Rohtak on Saturday which led to a conflict between police and protesters and even pressured district authorities to shift the helipad for the CM’s chopper from a non-public college campus to Rohtak policelines. A couple of policemen and no less than two farmers have been injured within the conflict.
The conflict had pressured authorities to shift the helipad for CM’s chopper from a non-public college campus to Rohtak Police Lines. The protest towards the CM had come shut on the heels of Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala too going through a serious farmers’ protest in Hisar.
Sources say farmers had blocked round 15 roads together with nationwide highways in Jind district after the Rohtak incident on Saturday late night. The roads have been blocked in another components of the state together with Hisar district too.
A farmer chief from Jind, Ramphal Kandela, stated that two nationwide highways – Jind-Kaithal-Chandigarh and Jind-Delhi – which have been blocked in Jind district Saturday night, have been opened round 3 pm on Sunday. A farmer chief from Rohtak, Sumit Kumar, stated farmers blocked Rohtak-Panipat nationwide freeway at Makdoli toll plaza for 3 hours – 12 midday to three pm – on Sunday. According to Kumar, a hyperlink highway within the district too was blocked for nearly two hours Sunday.
Local farmer chief from Charkhi Dadri Raju Mann stated the agitators blocked Bhiwani-Mahendragarh nationwide freeway at Kitlana toll plaza in Bhiwani district for half an hour. “The farmers burnt effigy of the chief minister too. Our struggle will continue till three farm laws are not repealed,” added Mann.
Meanwhile, BKU Haryana unit president Gurnam Singh Chaduni urged the farmers to unblock all roads at 3 pm Sunday. He additionally addressed a panchayat of farmers at Makdoli toll plaza of Rohtak district. Chaduni alleged that many farmers who have been protesting peacefully have been lathicharged and obtained accidents, however regardless of that the police claimed they didn’t use drive on them. The farmer chief sought motion towards those that inflicted accidents on farmers. “If the government did not order a lathicharge on farmers, who did inflict injuries on farmers?” he requested.
Chaduni additional stated, “The government should mend its ways. Till the agitation is going on, the leaders of BJP-JJP should not come out in public. The government should take a decision in this regard. The government wants a confrontation to defame the agitation.”
“If the leaders of the alliance continue to remain adamant to come to public, the Samyunkta Kisan Morcha will take a call in this regard on April 6,” he added.
Earlier, on Sunday morning, DSP Jind Pushpa Khatri stated {that a} jam-like state of affairs had developed in Jind district at many areas following hypothesis after the Rohtak incident. Urging farmers to not get influenced by the hypothesis, the DSP stated that the state of affairs is peaceable in Rohtak. “No lathicharge was undertaken by the police (in Rohtak). During the protest (in Rohtak), some people had pelted stones on police, which had resulted in injuries to some policemen and 2-3 farmers,” she added.
