A day after the attack on BJP MLA Arun Narang in Malout, severalBJP leaders today held a sit-in dharna outside Chief Minister Captain AmarinderSingh house in Chandigarh, condemning the brutal attack and demanding actionagainst those accountable.
BJP MLA Arun Narang was allegedly manhandled; even hisclothes were ripped off by a group of protesting farmers while he arrived atMalout in Muktsar district to address a press conference against Congressgovernment.
Reports were received that a few BJP leaders even tookoff their shirts and protested bare-chested, expressing their resentmentagainst the attack and law and order situation in Punjab.
Meanwhile, after meeting the Punjab Governor todaymorning, the BJP leaders under the leadership of the chief of the party's stateunit Ashwani Sharma headed towards the CM’s house to stage a sit-in dharna.
The BJP leaders raised slogans against the CaptainAmarinder-led-Congress government, demanding resignation of the CM over itsfailure to maintain law and order in the state.
“The voice of the BJP cannot be suppressed. We have neverseen democracy being shamed this way,” said Ashwani Sharma, while questioningthat what was the fault of Abohar MLA? He had gone there to highlight thefailure of the state government,” said Sharma.
Even since the protests against the three farm billsstarted in Punjab and at the Delhi borders, the BJP leaders in Punjab arefacing farmers’ wrath whenever they visit the state for any political ornon-political reasons.
The agitating farmers on several occasions have disruptedprogrammes of the BJP party leaders and even gheraoed party’s state chiefAshwani Sharma in Jalandhar.