Jagjit Singh Sidhu
Talwandi Sabo, December 5
Farmer Protest: The situation of tension between the farmers and the police continued on Thursday due to the dispute arising from Wednesday regarding the forced laying of gas pipelines in the farmers’ fields. The march led by BKU (Ugrahan) for the last one and a half years to get full compensation from the farmers in lieu of the laying of the gas pipeline in the fields of village Lelewala by the multinational company was dispersed by the police at night yesterday and the fields were destroyed by heavy police force. The pipeline was started.
The farmers have been protesting since yesterday and the village has been turned into a police cantonment since yesterday. To protest on a large scale today, farmers from different corners of Punjab had started arriving at the Gurdwara Sahib of Lelewala village since last night, where a large gathering of farmers has joined today.
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The gathering is being addressed by various speakers. Farmer wives are also included in the gathering and state president of BKU (Ugrahan) Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Jhanda Singh Jethuke, Shingara Singh Mann and other senior leaders have arrived on this occasion.
On the other hand, in order to deal with the situation, the police administration has made proper arrangements by deploying a large number of forces on the main road leading to the place with the pipeline at a distance from the Gurdwara Sahib on the outskirts of the village, so that the place with the gas pipeline increases. And the farmers can be stopped in advance. In order to solve the problem, the high officials of the police and civil administration are also in the process of talking with the leaders of the farmers. Considering the situation, the work of laying the pipeline has been stopped by the administration today at the request of the farmers’ union.