‘Police Abused, Kicked Us’: Farmers Stopped From Meeting Protesting Wrestlers

New Delhi: Delhi Police is trying their best to ensure that the wrestlers are not able to strengthen their protest at Jantar Mantar.

After fellow-wrestler Geeta Phogat and her husband were not allowed to meet the protesting wrestlers, several farmers’ leaders alleged on Thursday that they were stopped at Haryana’s Singhu border from travelling to Jantar Mantar.

The likes of Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat had requested farmers and their leaders to be present at the protest site following a scuffle between Delhi Police and the wrestlers last night.

The farmers responded, but couldn’t reach Jantar Mantar. They even complained of being heckled by police personnel.

“We were peacefully with our elders and youngsters were going to Jantar Mantar to support the wrestlers. At Singhu Border, Delhi Police personnels stopped us, misbehaved, abused us and kicked senior farmers leaders. They aggressively pushed us in a police bus and brought us to Bavana Police Station. I request everyone who has a conscience to come on the streets in support of the wrestlers. This is not a small issue, it is an issue of honour of our daughters,” Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Abhimanyu Kohar said on Twitter.

Kohar further accused the BJP government of neither supporting the farmers nor women of the country.

“We have to save farming as well as our daughters. The BJP doesn’t understand the importance of either,” he said.