Those stormed Red Fort are terrorists: K’taka Agri Min

Koppal, (Karnataka) Jan 26 : Karnataka Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil said on Tuesday that those who stormed the Red Fort in the national capital on Republic Day were not farmers, but terrorists.
After unfurling the tricolour at the 72nd Republic Day function in Koppal district headquarters here, Patil said that those who stormed the Red Fort can not be termed as farmers by any stretch of imagination. “They can only be described as terrorists backed by the Congress and Pakistan,” he said.
Patil is not new to controversies. In December 2020, he kicked off a row while participating in an event where he said that farmers who commit suicide are cowards.
Last week while participating in another event, he reiterated his statement and said that farmers with weak mind end their lives. On both occasions, farmer leaders had sought a public apology from Patil for making such statements.
According to Patil, the Indian tricolour and the Red Fort have special and constitutional sanctity and any insult to them, especially on Republic Day, is an utter disgrace in the country’s democratic history. “It is highly condemnable and those guilty must be brought to book,” he asserted.
Justifying his accusations, Patil, who served as a police officer before trying his hand at Kannada films and then joining politics, claimed that India’s farmers’ culture doesn’t allow taking law into their hands or attacking the police.