Farmers’ Dharna May Turn Into COVID-19 super-spreader: Punjab CM

Mumbai: By urging the farmer group Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said not to go ahead with their proposed sit-in protest, fearing that it could turn into a Covid19 super-spreader.

Chief Minister said his government had fought hard to prevent the spread of COVID19 and any event, such as the proposed 3-day dharna of the BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) in Patiala, had the potential to negate the gains made by his government in tackling COVID in the state.

“Such a dharna would draw people mainly from the villages, which were, in any case, going through a crisis during the second wave of the pandemic,” he said.

“Total support the state government had extended all these months to the agitating farmers on the issue of the Centre’s black Farm Laws,” it said.

He further says, “It is time for the farmers now to reciprocate by supporting the state government in the fight against the pandemic.”

However, he pointed out that even during the peak of the second COVID wave in Punjab, things had not gone out of control here as they had in several other states.

Now, the state has been one of the best performings so far as the management of the pandemic is concerned, he claimed.

Meanwhile, as per the gravity of the situation, there is no scope for any laxity in COVID appropriate behaviour and rallies or “Dharnas” of any kind are totally unacceptable when the lives of the people are at stake, he said

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