BJP questions SKM's call to burn effigies of PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah on Dasehra

Chandigarh, October 12

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s call to burn effigies of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP leaders on Dasehra has brought the saffron party and morcha at loggerheads once again.

In the wake of the Lakhimpur Kheri killings, SKM leaders Balbir Singh Rajewal and Darshan Pal had given a call to farmers to burn BJP leaders’ effigies on October 15.

BJP’s state general secretary Subhash Sharma said targeting a political party and holding demonstrations on a religious occasion reflected insensitivity on part of certain farm unions. In a letter to the DGP, Sharma has sought an FIR against those who were “deliberately and maliciously trying to hurt the religious sentiments of the community”. — TNS