As farmers continued to stage demonstrations for the second day on Wednesday against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab’s Jalandhar, demanding a rise in State-assured price for sugarcane crop, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that farmer unions were harassing the people by blocking the roads for the sake of their vested interests.
He asked the farmers union to stop the undue harassment of the common man by blocking roads in the State. In a statement issued, the Chief Minister said that the farm unions must desist from creating inconvenience to the common man else the people will turn against them.
He said that just for their vested interests the Unions are harassing the people by blocking the roads thereby jeopardizing their routine lives, which is highly unfortunate. He said that the doors of his office and residence along with Punjab Bhawan, Punjab Civil Secretariat, and the office of the Agriculture Minister are always open for dialogue.
