Protesters dump cow dung at BJP leader's house in Punjab

Chandigarh: As a form of protest against the Centre's new farm laws, a group of unidentified people on Friday (January 1)  dumped a heap of cow dung outside the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) leader at Hosiarpur in Punjab.

According to a media report, a tractor trolley carrying cow dung was unloaded outside the house of BJP leader Tikshan Sud in Hoshiarpur.

Apart from this the group believed to be farmers protesting the laws, staged a protest raising anti slogans against the centre outside Sud's house and some of them allegedly dumped cow dung in front of the leader's house.

Later in the day, miffed over this act Tikshan Sud led a group of BJP workers and staged a dharna at the Rai Bahadur Jodhamal road in Hoshiarpur demanding action against those responsible for dumping dung in front of his house.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh reacting to the incident said that harassment of people in the name of protest cannot be tolerated.

CM Singh took a serious note of the incident and issued a stern warning to the protesters said, "invasion of privacy will bring a bad name to the peaceful agitation of farmers and defeat its very objective."

He also cautioned that such "attempts at forcible entry into the houses of any political functionaries, or to picket their homes had the dangerous potential to vitiate the atmosphere of peace and destroy the harmony amongst people of different castes, religions, communities etc, which was contrarian to the spirit of harmony and unity in Punjabi "

Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Kumar Sharma also condemned the act and terming the act as an 'attack' he said that some mischievous people"attacked" the residence of Sud just to disturb state's peace and brotherhood.

A case have been registered by the police against the unknown protesters.

Farmers from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and several other states have been protesting the three laws for weeks. 

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