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Chandigarh: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday stressed that the ongoing protest of farmers is more of a mutiny than an agitation. He also slammed Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for asking the farmers to protest in Haryana.
Talking about the protest against Centre’s farm laws, Anil Vij said, “It (farmers’ stir) can’t be called an agitation. People don’t bring swords, use lathis and block the passage of people in an agitation. They sit on dharna and hunger strikes. This can’t be called a protest. You may call it ‘ghadar’ (mutiny).”
Training guns at Captain Amarinder Singh, the Haryana Home Minister went on to say, “Punjab CM is saying that all the disruptions should be done in Haryana. These words should not have been spoken by a democratically-elected CM.”
It (farmers' stir) can't be called an agitation. People don't bring swords, use lathis and block the passage of people in an agitation. They sit on dharna and hunger strikes. This can't be called a protest. You may call it 'ghadar' (mutiny): Haryana Minister Anil Vij pic.twitter.com/Bv7OnwZOd8
— ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2021
“(Captain) Amarinder Singh has kept the issue (of farmers’ stir) alive to fulfill his political ambitions,” he added.
Notably, at an event in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab today, Captain Amarinder Singh had said that farmers should desist from holding protests in a state which ‘stood like a rock’ with them in favour of their legitimate issues against farm laws passed by the BJP led Central Government and ‘thrusted it upon them unilaterally’ even without taking into their confidence.
“The ongoing protests at 113 places in Punjab by the farmers are not at all in the interests of the state, and has considerably impacted its economic development,” he said while hoping that his request would be acceded by the farmers on agitation.
