Farmer protest against BJP Amritsar candidate: His 2 supporters booked

“The farmers were protesting peacefully. They were attacked and a few of them were injured. Our protest against the BJP candidates will continue and we will continue questioning them why we are not being allowed to march towards Delhi and why Shubhkaran was killed,” Pandher told The Indian Express.

The two BJP supporters were booked under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 224 (illegal obstruction) and 34 (criminal act done by several persons).

Farmer unions have been protesting against BJP candidates in different constituencies. On Friday, BJP candidate Hans Raj Hans was questioned by members of BKU Ugrahan at Faridkot and he spoke at length over the mic saying that the ministers and people from Punjab gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrong feedback about farm laws and later made the PM a villain. Hans asserted that he himself never spoke a word against the farmers and will never say so even in future as he understood their pain. He started singing to avoid confrontation. When the farmers asked why the protesters sitting at Shambhu border were not being allowed to march ahead, he stated that it wasn’t in his hands and he recited shabad (sacred song) and said “Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Shri Akaal” before leaving.

Even BJP candidate Parampal Kaur Sidhu, daughter-in-law of senior Akali leader Sikander Singh Maluka, faced protest in Bathinda urban on Friday. Sources said that she had to pass through narrow lanes by foot leaving her vehicle behind. She waited at the house of an Akali leader for a few minutes before her vehicle arrived there.