‘The Modi authorities should inform us what this individual’s reference to the BJP is.’
IMAGE: A protestor hoist flags on the Crimson Fort, January 26, 2021. {Photograph}: PTI Photograph
“We’re completely pained on the acts of those political parts who tried to disrespect the nationwide flag and convey disgrace to the nation,” Abhimanyu Kohar, nationwide spokesperson of the Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh, a constituent of the 41-member Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com.
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has all the time categorically acknowledged that the farmers’ agitation would stay peaceable. What occurred through the tractor parade?
At some locations there have been parts belonging to a political social gathering, who’ve by no means been a part of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha from the very first day, and which this authorities and Delhi police are additionally properly conscious of, had entered clandestinely to sabotage our peaceable agitation.
I’m speaking about this individual named Deep Sidhu who had campaigned aggressively for BJP MP Sunny Deol (from Gurdaspur), and who has additionally been seen in pictures with the prime minister (Narendra Damodardas Modi), who alongside along with his supporters compelled their method into the Crimson Fort even because the Delhi police guarding the premises slept and allowed him to enter the Crimson Fort.
The Modi authorities ought to be held accountable for what he and his supporters did on the Crimson Fort.
The Modi authorities should inform us what this individual’s reference to the BJP is and the way he defied the police barricades round and contained in the Crimson Fort; how he entered the Crimson Fort and who allowed him to enter the premises and let one other individual climb atop to interact in acts that introduced us nationwide ignominy.
If there have been such heavy police deployment, then why did no one cease him from coming into the Crimson Fort?
The SKM has nothing to do with what occurred in Delhi and with the acts of the BJP’s Deep Sidhu. Not even one of many 32 farmers’ unions from Punjab has something to do with him.
He has been on the Singhu border for greater than two months now, however we by no means entertained him on stage.
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Have been all of the farmers who entered the Crimson Fort Deep Sidhu’s supporters?
No. Later our farmers too entered the Crimson Fort, however none of our farmers vandalised any property or created a ruckus contained in the Crimson Fort.
The hoisting of a spiritual flag and slogan shouting was executed by this individual and others he incited. Our farmers have gotten nothing to do with what occurred contained in the Crimson Fort.
Do you count on the Delhi police to arrest him for trespassing into the Crimson Fort and hoisting the non secular flag?
We now have known as a giant assembly of all of the farmer leaders and at that assembly we’ll ask the query: Who’re Deep Sidhu’s masters?
Why did this man instigate one other individual to climb atop the Crimson Fort and hoist a spiritual flag and chant slogans ? Who’re his political masters? We are going to ask the federal government to answer these questions.
There have been cases of violence in different elements of Delhi too because the police and farmers attacked each other…
At Palwal, close to Faridabad, farmers had been informed they might take their tractor rally in direction of Badarpur and take a U-turn from the primary sign close to Delhi. However they weren’t even allowed to achieve close to Faridabad.
The police brutally assaulted them with lathis, destroyed ten tractors and injured dozens of farmers by hitting them on their heads. Three individuals suffered fractures on their arms and legs. Who’s chargeable for this violence?
The Delhi police assaulted the farmers with none provocation?
The highest officers from the Delhi police had held very elaborate discussions with our leaders and at these conferences had given verbal permission to take the rally on this route.
Did not you could have the Delhi police’s written permission to take the tractor parade on this route?
No, the Delhi police had not given us written permission; for some causes we couldn’t get it. All these points can be mentioned through the assembly immediately.
In the event you didn’t have the Delhi police’s written permission, then how might you employ that route for the farmers’ tractor parade?
On the a number of conferences that we held with Delhi’s high law enforcement officials, by which I used to be additionally current, that they had assured us that they are going to maintain deliberations on our requests and finalise this route for which we had sought the permission for the rally.
We got verbal assurances repeatedly that they are going to finalise the route that the farmers had sought the permission for the tractor rally.
However you didn’t have a written permission to take the tractor rally on this route.
No, we did not get it (the written permission from the Delhi police). We stored asking for it, however they did not give it.
It is a mass motion and when one has verbal assurances from a senior police officer that they are going to give us a written permission, then are we not speculated to respect his verbal assurances?
Do you suppose the excessive ethical floor that the SKM has been taking all lately has been dented?
This violence has not diminished our excessive ethical floor even a bit; the truth is, it has magnified the excessive ethical floor on which we’ve been finishing up our agitation peacefully.
As I’ve stated, the individuals concerned in acts of violence should not constituents of the SKM; we’ve had no relationship with them.
Having stated that, as a result of the farmers’ group is that entity whose little kids should not solely toiling laborious within the fields to supply meals for the nation however are additionally defending our nation’s borders and make up for the majority of the police drive, and whose sons settle for martyrdom and are available dwelling wrapped within the nationwide tricolour defending the nation, let me categorically state that this farmers’ group completely respects the nationwide flag, dying for which is in our blood.
Being so, we’re completely pained on the acts of those political parts who tried to disrespect the nationwide flag and convey disgrace to the nation.
If their acts have harm anyone’s non secular or patriotic sentiments then, though the SKM was not a part of their anti-social act, we apologise to the nation as a result of to name for this tractor parade was our resolution.
We take the ethical accountability for the entry of such anti-social parts into this parade.
