New Delhi: Bharat Bandh was supported by the entire opposition in support of the farmers. In the bandh on Friday, there was complete bandh in many states of the country, while in BJP-ruled Karnataka and Gujarat, the government used force on the protesters and tried to crush the four-month-old agitation of the farmers.
This bandh was called by the United Kisan Morcha. United Kisan Morcha is the organization of the Kisan Union. Morcha General Secretary Yudhveer Singh was detained by the police in Ahmedabad while he was addressing a press conference. In this video it can be seen that Yudhveer Singh is surrounded by the soldiers of Gujarat Police.
Similarly, in Karnataka, peasant leaders were detained in the capital city of Bengaluru. These people were detained while they were protesting near the town hall. The leaders who were detained include Kavita Kuruganti of United Kisan Morcha.
Kisan Morcha convenor Dr Darshan Pal has condemned the detention of the leaders. He said that BJP-ruled states are trying to suppress the voices of protest in violation of democratic processes.
He said, “this is a violation of the constitutional rights of citizens to hold peaceful demonstrations, which the Supreme Court has outlined in relation to the peasant movement.” Yudhveer Singh of the Bhartiya Kisan Union Tikait and another key member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha were arrested in Bhavnagar. Kavita Kuruganti, Kodihali Chandrasekhar, Baya Reddy and other trade union leaders were arrested in Bengaluru.
Apart from this, Karnataka Police has arrested many leaders in Gulbarga as well. ” He said that women police personnel were deployed in plain uniform in the town hall area of Bengaluru, who detained several protesters. He said that BJP-ruled states are trying to crush the peasant movement in an audacious way, this shows their frustration.
Significantly, thousands of farmers in Punjab, Delhi, Haryana and other states of the country protested and demanded the withdrawal of the agricultural law and joined the Bharat Bandh. Four Shatabdi trains were also canceled due to the peasant movement.
