Tribune news service
Chandigarh, October 25
Led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), Punjab farmers’ organizations received a massive response to the call to burn the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business magnates Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani during the Dasehra celebrations.
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Without progress in the conversations with the Center on agrarian laws, the peasant organizations had called for the burning of effigies of the Central Government and owners of large business groups.
‘Our protest will only intensify’
We have burned the effigies to send the message that we are going to intensify our agitation against the new farm laws in the days ahead.
In Bathinda, farmers gathered near the Multipurpose Sports Stadium, where a huge effigy with photographs of Modi, Ambani and Adani was burned. Similar protests took place in several other locations in the district, including at the government school stadiums in Sangat, Nathana and Maur, PWD Ground near the train station in Rampura, and Tractor Mandi in Talwandi Sabo.
In the Mansa district, people responded favorably to the call for protest in the city of Mansa, Budhlada and Sardulgarh. The protesters raised slogans against the Union Government, underscoring their complaint against farm laws that they claimed would pave the way for corporate houses to seize their farmland. “Prime Minister Modi, Amabani and Adani are behind the passage of agricultural laws that would ruin farmers,” said Shingara Singh Mann, secretary of state of BKU (Ekta Ugrahan).
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Similarly, in Sangrur, Barnala, Malerkotla and Mandi Ahmedgarh, farmers also burned effigies of the PM and the owners of business groups.
Also in Ferozepur, the Kisan Majdoor Sangharsh Committee burned the effigies, demanding the immediate repeal of the agricultural laws.
