BATHINDA: Senior leader of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha Yogendra Yadav has been suspended from the SKM for a month after he visited the home of BJP activist Shubham Mishra, who was beaten to death after 4 farmers and a journalist were mowed down in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3. Yadav had also tweeted about his visit. The SKM in its meeting on Thursday took serious note of the development and suspended Yadav for a month.
Yadav is member of 9 members committee of SKM which normally take the highest decisions.
“The leaders of Punjab’ farm organisations wanted to permanently expel Yogendra Yadav from SKM but as he apologised and assured to apologise in the social media about his act, he was only suspended”, senior SKM leader and farm outfit BKU Ekta Dakaunda president Buta Singh Burjgill told TOI.
Earlier, farm leader Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala had told TOI that the farm outfits are angry over whatever Yogendra Yadav is doing and we will put an agenda in the SKM meeting to expel him from SKM.
Even the BJP leaders had been demanding his expulsion from SKM, asking what is a politician doing in a farmer protest. The BJP had ben accusing Yadav of misleading the farmers and asking them to take political decisions.
Sources said Yogendra Yadav was not being liked by farm groups from Punjab and had been feeling suffocated in his leadership but as he (Yadav) had some admirers in the SKM, they were saving him from action. Farm leader from Haryana, Gurnam Singh Charuni, too had been speaking against Yogendra Yadav, who too belongs to Haryana. It has to be mentioned that Yogendra Yadav had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an Aam Aadmi Party ticket.
