Protesting Indian farmers are harassing BJP and JJP politicians all over India by blocking them from campaigning and protesting at their homes and offices.
Its seven days to the Punjab civic polls, and senior BJP Jalandhar leader Ramesh Sharma is in a quandary. “They follow us everywhere,” he says.
In 2015, the then ruling Akali-Dal BJP combine had swept the civic
polls, with the BJP outperforming its senior partner. This time, the BJP
has not been able to find candidates for two-thirds of the seats, nor
to campaign in the rest. As the protesters at Delhi’s borders press on,
Punjab BJP leaders are nervously watching the “pakka dharnas” outside
homes of more than 30 of them — unceasing for four months, continuing
day and night, drawing people from up to 40 km away, organised by farm
unions, under tents that can hold 200 people. The banners at the sites
demand that the “black” farm laws be repealed, ask why farmers are being
called terrorists, and exhort: ‘Aao saare Dilli chaliye (Let’s all go
to Delhi)’.
The BJP has hardly stirred out for campaigning, for fear of protesters
surrounding their venues. Many BJP leaders have quit — over 20 of them
in January alone — including the only Sikh face in the party’s core
committee in the state, Malwinder Singh Kang. Partymen have removed the
BJP flag from their vehicles, and check farmers’ protest plans before
leaving homes, says a senior BJP leader.
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In Rampura Phul area of Bathinda, a pakka dharna outside the factory of
Makhan Jindal, a BJP state executive committee member, on since
mid-October, was lifted on January 10 only after Jindal resigned from
the party.
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At several places, BJP candidates are not contesting on party symbol, [but instead as independents]”.
Among the BJP leaders contesting as an Independent is Bathinda BJP
chief Vinod Binta. He says he had no choice; “protesters are not
allowing us to hold election meetings”.
Careful not to provoke the farmers, he adds, “They have all the right to protest but they are getting too personal.”
Protesters have also vented anger on the Akali Dal, with slogans
forcing its chief Sukhbir Badal to abandon a speech on farm laws at the
Fatehgarh Sahib gurdwara on December 28. He had to be escorted out via
the back gate. Mystery surrounds the February 3 attack on Sukhbir’s vehicle in his
constituency Fazilka, while he was accompanying a party candidate for
filing of nomination for the civic polls.
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It’s not just the ruling BJP that has been hemmed in. In a worse situation is its partner JJP and Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala. The farmers
have announced they won’t allow any public meetings of BJP-JJP leaders.
The CM has had his Kaimla venue vandalised and his cavalcade forced
back with black flags in Ambala; Chautala has had a temporary helipad in
his constituency Jind uprooted to thwart his arrival; minister Kamlesh
Dhanda has had her cavalcade chased in Kaithal; the BJP has had to
cancel training sessions and a protest on the Satlej-Yamuna Link issue
in Fatehabad as farmers called it a bid to divide them along Punjab and
Haryana lines. Outside many villages, boards bar entry of BJP and JJP
leaders.Says Raj Kumar, a farmer from Jind district, “BJP, JJP leaders can come out only if they hide their identity, wearing masks.”
Protesting farmers dig up a helipad in Jind so JJP politician
Dushyant Chautala
can’t land and campaign in the area.
On February 23, 2021, on the birthday of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and Red Navy – the first army of the state of victorious workers in history – left-wing activists took to action in different regions of Russia. The actions took place despite the opposition of the authorities.
Members and supporters of the United Communist Party (OKP) took part in the events.
Fright-Rags has released Day of the Dead trading cards. Each wax pack contains nine cards and a sticker, with autograph cards (by Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Jarlath Conroy, Gary Klar, Antone DiLeo, and Greg Nicotero) randomly inserted with a 1:24 rarity.
They’re available in single packs ($5), factory boxes with the full 84-card base set and more ($35), and sealed boxes with two full base sets, two full sticker sets, and more ($120; limited to 300).
I fully understand why westerners thought the platypus was a hoax at first. I’m looking at a real live one moving around and it STILL looks fake.
The one thing that could have made them sound any more made up would have been if you said the boys have secret viper fangs that can absolutely fuck you up with venom, and they do, on their goddamn feet.
cursed platypus facts: * five (5) X chromosomes * only the left ovary works * produces milk but has no nipples. the mother just kind of sweats milk out their chest. nature is beautiful * was nearly called the “duckmole” * swims with its weird fish eyes and ears closed, hunting entirely by electroreception * born with teeth, but then they fall out
If a writer wrote this for an alien specie people would say they are pushing it too far but honestly nature is weirder than anyone can imagine
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