Chandigarh: Citing a VVIP occasion on 18 June, district police in Sirsa, Haryana, have served notices to 130 individuals, asking them to execute bonds that they may preserve peace. Union Dwelling Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief Amit Shah is holding a rally in Sirsa that day, the place he’s additionally anticipated to kick off the get together’s marketing campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The individuals who have been served notices embody sarpanches, farmer unions activists, and native leaders of Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) and the Congress.
Shah’s go to comes at a time when farmers have been up in arms in opposition to the federal government on a spread of points, and compelled the federal government earlier this week to provide into their demand for a Minimal Help Value on sunflower seeds after an agitation.
Haryana Sarpanches Affiliation chief Ranbir Singh Samain had additionally introduced 8 June that his union will maintain a protest throughout Shah’s rally, demanding scrapping of e-tendering course of and restoration of all of the provisions of the Panchayati Raj Act.
Final month, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s Jan Samvad programme noticed a number of disruptions. Naina Jhorar, sarpanch of Bani village of Sirsa, threw her dupatta at Khattar’s toes after she was not allowed to put her calls for earlier than him.
On one other event, villagers from Dogda Ahir staged a sit-in exterior the home Khattar was staying in opposition to elevating the standing of Sihma village to sub-tehsil as an alternative of their village.
Among the many individuals who have been served notices are Naina Jhorar talked about above, Ved Parkash, sarpanch of Jodhpuria village, senior Congress chief Raj Kumar Sharma, and Lakwinder Singh Aulakh, state president of farmers’ physique Bhartiya Kisan Ekta (BKE).
BKE chief Aulakh alleged that the federal government is harassing them as it’s afraid the rally might be a flop present. “Lots of our farmer activists have gotten such notices. This proves that the BJP authorities is functioning just like the British rule that didn’t permit anybody to lift their voice in opposition to injustice and oppression,” he added.
Aulakh stated his BKE is part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha that carried out a 13-month stir on Delhi borders in opposition to the now repealed farm legal guidelines. He stated he has informed all members of his organisation to not settle for these notices.
“We’re not criminals, nor has my organisation given any name for opposing the rally…It turned clear throughout Khattar’s Jan Samvad programme that persons are not within the BJP and its programmes,” he added.
In the meantime, the police stated it was a routine observe. Sirsa Superintendent of Police Udai Singh Meena stated the notices had been aimed toward securing peace in the course of the rally.
“We’ve got issued such notices to 130 individuals. These are individuals who have a historical past of making disturbance. These persons are not from any explicit political get together or career…The state Prison Investigation Division supplied us with an inventory of people that can create hassle in the course of the rally or publish provocatory materials on social media to instigate folks,” he stated to ThePrint over the telephone Thursday.
“They are going to have the freedom to make use of social media. However liberty is all the time accompanied by accountability,” he added.
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‘Breach of peace’
One such discover issued to fifteen folks by the Ellenabad sub-divisional Justice of the Peace, Ellenabad (The Print has a duplicate), reads that the native police has submitted a “Kalandra” in opposition to these individuals.
Kalandra is the police’s submission to the Justice of the Peace to problem a discover beneath part 107/150 of Code of Prison Process (CrPC) – in case of imminent breach of peace – to signal a bond of fine behaviour.
“The Kalandra says that an occasion involving a VVIP is to be held at Sirsa on 18 June…individuals talked about within the record can disturb peace and tranquility in the course of the occasion, which is a critical safety matter,” stated the order.
Directing these talked about within the discover to seem earlier than him on 16 June, the SDM ordered them to execute bonds of observing good conduct for six months with private surety of Rs. 50,000.
Distinguished native politicians who’ve been served a discover embody Congress chief Raj Kumar Sharma and his son Mohit Sharma. Sharma is a delegate of the district unit to the Pradesh Congress Committee whereas Mohit is the state basic secretary of the Youth Congress.
“Solely yesterday, I issued a press assertion that the BJP was organising Amit Shah’s rally in a shed within the grain market with a capability of seven,000 and was claiming that lakhs of individuals will attend the occasion. At this time, we now have acquired these notices asking us to seem earlier than the SDM on Friday,” Sharma stated to ThePrint Thursday.
He alleged that earlier, when Khattar held Jan Samvad in Sirsa, he was just about saved beneath home arrest all through the day.
Ashok Tanwar, former Sirsa MP and chairman of the marketing campaign committee for AAP, alleged that lots of his get together staff acquired such notices.
“There may be a number of resentment in opposition to the BJP-JJP authorities amongst folks on the grassroots degree. This was evident throughout Khattar’s Jan Samvad at Sirsa final month. As a substitute of addressing grievances and fulfilling their guarantees, the BJP is resorting to oppressive means,” he stated.
Whereas BJP MP from Sirsa, Sunita Duggal, refused to remark, calling it a legislation and order problem, she stated, “It’s a matter of delight and privilege for us that Amit Shah has chosen Sirsa for his first rally in Haryana this 12 months…he’s variety sufficient to have determined to start out his marketing campaign right here. The rally might be an enormous success.”
(Edited by Smriti Sinha)
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