BATHINDA: SKM yet again on Saturday condemned the lynching at Singhu border, reiterating that it could be a conspiracy to sabotage the movement through sacrilege and disturbance by hurting religious sentiments.
SKM said as per reports from victim’s village and family, it appeared that LakhbirSingh alias Titu, who had been lynched after being accused of desecrating the Sikh holy book, had been receiving mysterious calls which he would take in secrecy. “After a wedding in the village, deceased Lakhbir Singh went away with someone in the attire of a Nihang Sikh and landed up with a Nihang group in Singhu border. This points to a deep conspiracy of some sort,” SKM stated. Sanyukt Kisan Morcha also stated that the movement would continue to grow stronger despite setbacks, and peace and nonviolence will continue to be the cornerstone for the movement.
Meanwhile, to mark Dussehra, effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, MoS Ajay Mishra and other BJP leaders were burnt across Punjab on Saturday. In Haryana too, effigies were at some places, even though similar protests were held there on Friday too.
SKM, going by religious sentiments, had asked farm groups to burn effigies of the leaders on Staurday if not on Dussehra. Big effigies were burnt at Badal village, near the residence of Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal where activists of farm outfit BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) have been sitting on protest for 11 days to demand compensation for cotton crop loss due to pink bollworm attack.
Reacting to India slipping to 101st rank in global hunger ranking, SKM stated that the fact that India’s food security basket assured under the public distribution system had not been diversified to deliver on true nutrition was a loss for both farmers and consumers as well as environment.
“The corporatisation paradigm being promoted in our food and farming systems, represented by the 3 anti-farmer laws is truly problematic and that is what the current farmers’ movement is about,” said SKM.
