Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP K. Kanimozhi said on Friday that the ongoing agitation by farmers in northern parts of the country, especially around Delhi, has been treated as a criminal activity by the Centre.
Talking to journalists on the sidelines of the DMK’s 11-member poll panel meeting with educationalists, trade unions and party workers here, Ms. Kanimozhi, who leads the panel, said that steel spikes have been sprayed along the route to prevent agitating farmers from entering the national capital. Farmers have to protect themselves from smoke bombs thrown at them by the security forces. “It’s worse. They are treated as terrorists by the Centre, which does not listen to the genuine grievances of the protesting farmers,” she said.
The DMK MP was responding to a query on the Ambala police (Haryana) that revoked the imposition of National Security Act (NSA), 1980 against the main office-bearers of farmers’ union and the protesters, the previous day (Thursday).
