On Monday The Punjab Youth Congress worker set ablaze a tractor at the high-security area of India Gate, this happened a day after President Ram Nath Kovind signed the Agriculture Bill’s and made those laws. This was done by the Punjab Youth Congress worker to protest against the contentious legislation.
On the birth anniversary of revolutionary Bhagat Singh, at around at 7.15.a.m about 10-15 Punjab Youth Congress activists arrived at the national capital in a truck to protest against the controversial farm laws.
A tractor was offloaded by the activists from the truck and was set on fire.
“If the deaf is to hear, the sound has to be very loud: Bhagat Singh,” the IYC quoted the martyr in a tweet.
“In honor of the memory of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Punjab Youth Congress protested against the BJP government’s apathetic treatment of farmers by lighting a tractor at India Gate. Wake the sleeping govt. Inquilab Zindabad.”
A video was also attached to the act that was carried out meters away from the Rashtrapati Bhawan
The tractor was brought and set on fire to spread violence by the Youth Congress workers, A Delhi BJP media cell chief NeelkantBakshi told that he will be filing an FIR against them.
“They are trying to spread riots in the country and I will be filing an FIR to stop this conspiracy,” Bakshi told.
On Sunday the three contentious farm bills were signed into law even though many of the opposition parties urged him not to sign them, saying it was against the norms of parliament.
The tractor was set on fire hours before the Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh of Congress was about to sit in at the Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village of Khatkar Kalan against the laws.
The Amritsar-Delhi railway track has been blocked by the farmers as a part of protests against the laws even as the government insisted that it will make them self-reliant. They say the minimum support prices for their products can lead to an end with the new laws.
The Congress party said that the laws will make farmers “Slaves of big businessmen”
Slogans of “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” were raised by the men, and pictures were clicked with the burning tractor. Some of them also went live on social media platforms from the spot while carrying effigies, The passer-by’s told the police.
Five people involved in the incident have been detained for setting the tractor on fire, the fire was extinguished and no one was injured in the incident.
The adequate police force has been deployed in that area to avoid repetition of such incident, officials said.
The security around the city’s borders has been stepped up around the city amid the ongoing farmers protest in Haryana and Punjab against the new farm laws. The police prevented protesting farmers from entering Delhi through the Mayur Vihar border on Friday.
