Singhu murder: SGPC backs farm unions amid BJP attack

Punjab Deputy CM demands judicial probe, blames Haryana govt., police

While the BJP has targetted the farmers’ unions over the murder of a young Dalit man at the protest site at the Singhu border in Haryana’s Sonipat, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) — the body responsible for the management of all gurudwaras — on Saturday said the “unfortunate incident” was being used to tarnish the ongoing farmers’ movement.

SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur said the unfortunate incident would not have taken place had government been serious about resolving the issue of farmers. “Some people were deliberately trying to tarnish the image of the peasant struggle and as a result such incidents were taking place. Conspiracies are being hatched to discredit the peasant struggle, which is worrisome,” she said.

Punjab’s Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, demanded an inquiry from a sitting judge into the incident. Hitting out at the BJP-JJP government in Haryana, he said the State government and police could not shrug responsibility for incident as they were accountable for law and order.