A Punjab Police officer has been caught on digital camera slapping a middle-aged girl farmer at a village in Gurdaspur district, the video of which has gone viral on social media. As per studies, the farmers have been protesting towards land acquisition for a Bharatmala mission, which includes the development of highways, within the space. Sharing the video on Twitter, BJP chief Jaiveer Shergill mentioned, “Shameful act of slapping a women farmer by Punjab Police official in a village in Gurdaspur. @PunjabPoliceInd must take strict action against this individual.”
The alleged manhandling of the girl has sparked statewide protests by the farmers towards the acquisition of land for the Bharatmala mission. Hundreds of activists of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) squatted on railway tracks at a number of cities and blocked rail visitors over insufficient compensation for the land acquired for the mission.
KMSC spokesperson Gurbachan Singh Chabba mentioned the farmers have been protesting over the compensation challenge in reference to acquisition of land. Coming out within the assist of the farmers, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) condemned the `repression` let unfastened on the farmers and demanded motion towards the responsible, apart from a high-level probe into all the incident of assaulting the girl.
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Shameful act of slapping a girls farmer by Punjab Police official in a village in Gurdaspur, Punjab space.
Punjab @PunjabPoliceInd should strict motion towards this particular person. pic.twitter.com/rSmo8wv5LT
— Jaiveer Shergill (@JaiveerShergill) May 18, 2023
In a press release issued right here, senior SAD chief Daljit Singh Cheema mentioned, “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and its Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who also holds the home portfolio, have exposed their real face. Instead of listening to the grievances of the protesting farmers, this anti-farmer government has chosen to thrash and detain them and even manhandled women and the elderly.”
Asserting that no authorities ought to act in such a dictatorial method, Cheema mentioned, “It would have been better had the Chief Minister called the farmers and listened to their grievances instead of summarily evicting them from their land.” He additionally expressed solidarity with the farmers and demanded that they be given a sympathetic listening to.
