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BJP to focus on delinking agitation from farm issues -Smriti Kak Ramachandran

-Hindustan Times

The BJP leadership has explicitly instructed the cadre to reinforce that the ongoing farm protests are “motivated” and an attempt to “destabilise” the country, a party functionary claimed

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has redoubled efforts to distance the farmer protests from the farm issues ahead of elections in states such as Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, where the demand from a section of farmers’ for repealing the farm laws enacted last year has dominated the discourse and is expected to sway the electoral outcome.

Functionaries aware of the matter said the BJP leadership has explicitly instructed the cadre to reinforce that the ongoing farm protests are “motivated” and an attempt to “destabilise” the country. The party has consistently tried to attribute the opposition to the three farm laws to “provocation” by politically motivated groups. It has alleged the protestors, who have been camping near the Delhi borders since December last year, have been “infiltrated by anti-national elements.”

BJP general secretary Dushyant Gautam last year cited alleged pro-Pakistan and pro-Khalistan slogans shouted at a protest site as examples of the agitation having been “hijacked by terrorists and anti-national forces”. Similar sentiments have been expressed by other BJP leaders at various public events.

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