Deepender Hooda addresses farmers at a toll plaza in Jind.

Tribune News Service

Hisar, March 21

Condemning the alleged disgraceful comments by certain BJP leaders about the protesting farmers, the Rajya Sabha MP and Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda said the “arrogant behaviour of the BJP leaders would result in their political fall at the Centre and in Haryana”.

Addressing the farmers at the Khatkar toll plaza in Jind today, the MP said the tone and tenor of certain BJP leaders had been disgraceful vis-à-vis the agitating farmers. He said it was the unsavoury language of the ruling party leaders that seemed to have invited the wrath of the farmers.

Deepender visited the families of the two farmers who died at the Tikri border recently. Farmers Man Singh of Dindholi village and Karambir of Singhwal village had died of cardiac arrest. The MP handed over cheques for Rs 2 lakh to each of the families of the deceased and promised government job to one member of these families each.

The Congress leader said though nearly 300 farmers had died during the ongoing agitation, the farmers had not lost their patience and were keeping the stir afloat. The farmer leaders also appreciated the MP for raising the voice of the farmers in Parliament and on other platforms.