Agitators pile up dung at BJP leader’s house in Punjab for anti-Farmer Remarks

HOSHIARPUR, Punjab—Angered over the controversial remark of the former Punjab Minister and senior BJP leader Tikshan Sood, the agitating farmers today heaped dung inside the gate of his house here thereby causing embarrassment for him and his family.

Few days ago, Sood mocked the farmers who are agitating on the borders of Delhi against three farmer laws promulgated by BJP-led union government. He stated that those who are going to Delhi to join the stir, are actually going for a picnic. He faced a backlash from the people of Punjab for making this remark.

Furious over this statement, few farmers carrying black flags appeared outside Sood’s residence on a tractor-trailer which was full of dung. In protest against the remark, they unloaded the trailer there and spoiled the house’s entrance with the dung.

In reaction to this act, Sood himself came out along with his few supporters and exchanged heat with the protesters. Both sides raised slogans against each other. However, the cops prevented any untoward incident by intervening into the matter. Video and pictures of this incident are going viral over social media.

Notably, the BJP leaders and other functionaries of the RSS, its parental body, advocate drinking of cow’s piss for treatment of various illnesses, a comment is being shared over social media that the piss is purchased by the BJP leader at certain cost, but today farmers offered them shit of cow free of cost.

Hours after the incident, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh issued a statement to oppose this act. He said such actions went against the spirit of Punjabiyat and could not be condoned.

Strongly condemning such behaviour, the Chief Minister appealed to the protestors not to cause any harassment or inconvenience to families of political functionaries of any party by resorting to these kinds of acts. Invasion of privacy of people would bring a bad name to the peaceful agitation of the farmers and defeat its very objective, he warned, exhorting protestors not to take the law into their hands in their fight for the farmers’ rights. 

After months of showing exemplary restraint, and not indulging in any violence or lawlessness in Punjab, as well as at the borders of the national capital, some protestors were losing restraint despite being categorically asked by Kisan leaders to keep the protests peaceful, said Captain Amarinder. He urged these protesters to  exercise restraint and express their solidarity with the farmers in the same spirit of self-discipline as had been demonstrated so far by farmer organizations and lakhs of their supporters.

The Chief Minister further warned that such attempts at forcible entry into the houses of any political functionaries, or picketing of their homes, had the dangerous potential of vitiating the atmosphere of peace and destroy the harmony amongst people of diverse castes, religions, communities etc, which was contrarian to the Punjabi spirit of harmony and unity. Politics has its own place, but we must keep the spirit of Punjabiyat alive, he said.

Urging the protestors to keep faith in the Kisan Leaders who were engaged in talks with the Central Government to resolve the crisis triggered by the enactment of the black Farm Laws, the Chief Minister said any acts of harassment or violence were violative of the spirit of their democratic to protest peacefully. Traumatisation of the families of political leaders or workers through such acts could also lead to a law and order problem in Punjab, which had achieved the distinction of being one of the most peaceful states in the country in the past few years, he pointed out.