Haryana: 19 khaps resolve to withstand ‘forcible removal’ of farmers from dharna websites

Despite Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij declaring that “there was nothing like any mission clean up” to take away farmers from dharna websites, farmer teams and khap panchayats have grow to be lively “to counter any such move in the near future”.
The leaders of as many as 19 khaps from Haryana’s Jind district Tuesday declared that they might strongly resist if such efforts have been made within the state.
The khaps had referred to as a panchayat at Khatkar toll plaza on Delhi-Jind-Patiala nationwide freeway close to Jind on Tuesday. Declaring that the agitation towards three farm legal guidelines is a battle for farmers’ survival, khap leaders mentioned they may proceed their battle until “the black laws are not repealed”.
After the panchayat, Dhadan khap chief Azad Palwa, who can be district president of BKU, mentioned, “The khap leaders have resolved to oppose any efforts aimed to remove protesters from dharna sites. The talks over removal of farmers in the name of corona pandemic are brought in the public domain just to break our agitation. But we can’t be removed from dharna sites till we are alive.”

“We fail to understand why the BJP leaders are allowed to hold rallies and other functions if there is any link to the public meetings and corona pandemic,” requested the farmer chief.
During Tuesday’s panchayat, which witnessed spectacular gathering of ladies too, was attended by leaders of khaps together with Kandela khap, Kheda khap, Dhadan khap, Binanain khap, Ujana khap, Chahal khap and Nandgarh Barah khap.
Amid talks of lockdown and restrictions imposed following spurt within the circumstances of Covid-19, an impression has gained floor among the many agitators that “the corona may be used as an excuse to end their agitation”.
However, denying the opportunity of any such “mission clean up”, Vij had not too long ago insisted that the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had simply said that the farmers ought to finish their dharnas through the pandemic suggesting they might return to the dharna websites later in the event that they really feel so.
In a collection of tweets through the previous 4 days, Haryana BKU president Gurnam Singh Chaduni has taken on the BJP over the difficulty.

“Corona doesn’t have any importance in the states where elections are to be held. Corona is a broker of BJP. This government is selling the country by (creating) fear of corona. Nobody from the farmer agitation fell ill because of this disease,” he tweeted Tuesday. “The government wants to crush this unprecedented people’s movement in the name of Covid-19 outbreak. Where is this virus in the poll-bound states where BJP leaders are addressing massive rallies which are being attended by thousands,” he wrote.
Earlier, Chaduni had additionally tweeted, “I call upon all farmers across India to leave for Delhi at once if the government takes any action on the farmers. They do not have enough bullets to kill the farmers of India. Let us not lose sight, the BJP government has been shaken to its core, and this is just another tactic by them to scare and malign the farmers.”
Farmer teams to oppose Dhankar, Brijendra Singh in Jind
According to Azad Palwa, the khaps and farmer teams have determined to oppose the proposed go to of BJP state president Om Prakash Dhankar and Hisar BJP MP Brijendra Singh to Jind on April 25 when they may go to the city to attend a perform.

“We have already decided to boycott BJP-JJP leaders over the issue of three farm laws. We will submit a memorandum to Jind DC on Wednesday to express our resentment against the proposed visit of Dhankar and Brijendra Singh to Jind,” mentioned Palwa. According to the khap chief, they’ve determined to go to the villages to induce the villagers to ship at the least one member from every of the households to affix the farmer agitation. Meanwhile, the farmer organisations Tuesday staged protests at varied locations to specific their resentment towards the not too long ago launched regulation meant for restoration of damages to property from the agitators terming the identical as an try and “supress the voice of agitator farmers”.
BJP Kisan Morcha to distribute masks amongst farmers
Haryana BJP president Om Prakash Dhankar mentioned Tuesday that get together’s Kisan Morcha will distribute sanitisers and masks to the farmers on the procurement centres. He additionally mentioned the saffron get together has opened corona medical assist centres in all districts of the state which shall be purposeful from 8 am to 10 pm. “With the help of these centres, anybody can seek information related to availability of beds, oxygen, ventilator and medicines in the hospitals of towns concerned. A state-level centre will be opened in Panchkula. Apart from this, the BJP workers have also planned to open “supply helpline” to offer important commodities to the corona affected households,” Dhankar added.