Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 7
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on reaching Mohali, the starting for protest march to Lakhimpur Kheri, announced to sit on a hunger strike tomorrow, if the accused in the incidents did not join investigation and were not arrested.
Sidhu said he was ready to sacrifice his life for the cause of farmers.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Randhaw and Cabinet Ministers Pargat Singh, and Vijay Inder Singla, besides former ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu, Gurpreet Kangar and Sunder Shyam Arora were among the leaders seen with Navjot Sidhu in Mohali. Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is also expected to join the protest on a short while.
Instead of holding the party flags, Sidhu and other leaders can be seen holding the flags associated with farmers agitation as slogans of ‘Kisan-mazdoor ekta zindabad’ were raised.
Earlier in the day, farmer unions surrounded the cavalcade and then the vehicle in which Sidhu was on his way to Mohali at Dhareri Jattan toll barrier and showed him black flags. It was after much requests by Sidhu that the farmers allowed him to pass through.
Navjot Sidhu to sit on hunger strike if culprits not arrested in Lakhimpur Kheri killings
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