Farmers meant no harm to PM: BKU

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 7

The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) has strongly condemned the hue and cry being created by the Government of India and the BJP over the “security lapse” during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state.

Why question right to protest?

Farmers did not come even close to the Prime Minister’s convey… to question the democratic right of protesters by raising the bogey of PM’s security on unfounded basis is wrong. BKU (Ekta Ugrahan)

The BKU termed this propaganda to further the divisive game plan for serving the narrow political interests. In a statement, BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan and general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan said the hype was being created in order to cover up the failed rally at Ferozepur. This drama has been enacted after Modi got information of the poor turnout at the rally while he was on his way.

Farm leaders clearly stated the unions had no plan to hold demonstration to block the movement of the Prime Minister at all. “However, even if due to the farmers’ demonstration the Prime Minister had to stop for 10 minutes, how does it become an issue of security at all? No untoward incident occurred, nor did any attempt to harm the PM come to the light. So much so, not even a single suspicious person was detected near the PM’s convoy. Rather in a video going viral on social media, BJP workers are shouting slogans near the convoy,” they said.

As for the decision of the route plan, it was a mutual issue among the administrators themselves, to make the matter political was wrong and inappropriate in its entirety, they stressed.