New Delhi, Dec 5 : The ruling BJP has said that the government should keep a close watch on anti-social elements who may have infiltrated the farmers’ agitation, which has landed at Delhis doors.
On being asked if the Left and Naxals have infiltrated the farmers stir, Naresh Sirohi, National Vice President, BJP Kisan Morcha, said, “‘Aisi baton ko hawa nahin deni chahiye’. Some anti-social elements do enter any movement and the government should keep a watch over them. This is a farmers’ agitation. How can anybody hijack it?” The question being posed now is has the Left and Naxals infiltrated the farmers’ agitation that has surrounded Delhi? The BJP-led government in Haryana had called some of these farmer leaders as “those having record of criminal activities”. The Haryana government also filed an affidavit in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for the preventive arrests of several farmer leaders.
The Haryana government called them “organisations with history of indulging in criminal activities, creating law and order problems and disturbing public peace and order”.
As per reports, Gurnam Singh Chaduni is leading the protesters from Haryana. Gurnam is facing several criminal cases for leading the protests and causing disruption of law and order.
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