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Chandigarh, June 5
Farmers burnt copies of the Centre s three farm laws near residences of BJP leaders and at other places in Punjab and Haryana on Saturday, observing the day of the promulgation of the farm ordinances last year as Sampoorna Kranti Diwas .
Farmers carrying black flags raised slogans against the BJP-led central government for not scrapping the legislation which, they said, will destroy the farming community.
Security personnel were deployed and barricades put up near the protest sites to maintain law and order.
The call for observing Sampoorna Kranti Diwas was given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of the protesting farmer unions, spearheading the agitation against the farm laws.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said his government has no objection to holding peaceful protests but those taking law into their own hands will be dealt with strictly. Farmer groups have been protesting in the state alleging that JJP legislator Devender Singh Babli used abusive language against them when they were protesting in Tohana in Fatehabad district on Tuesday. However, Babli has denied the charges and instead accused a group of protesting farmers of launching a murderous attempt on him during their protest in Tohana city. On Thursday, a group of farmers held a protest in Fatehabad against Babli and burnt his effigy, demanding that the MLA should apologise for his comments.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar slammed his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal for doing "politics over COVID-19 vaccine supply" and claimed the national capital has received more vaccines than other states on the basis of per million population.
Read more about Kejriwal doing politics over coronavirus vaccine supply, says Khattar on Business Standard. Manohar Lal Khattar slammed Arvind Kejriwal for doing "politics over COVID-19 vaccine supply" and claimed the national capital has received more vaccines than other states
Many states, including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa, have extended the lockdown or restrictions for a week to a fortnight in June, while some of them like Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh have also announced a certain relaxation in the curbs due to a decline in new cases and positivity rate.