Ellenabad Bypoll: BJP alleges assault, 25 farmers booked

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, October 10

The police on Sunday booked about 25 farmer activists for allegedly assaulting BJP workers while they were canvassing for the bypoll at Ellenabad in Sirsa district.

SKM refutes charge

BJP candidate Gobind Kanda and party workers were canvassing when the accused ‘assaulted them’
SKM leader Gurnam Singh Charuni said they had only given a call to oppose the BJP without resorting to violence

In his complaint, BJP’s Ellenabad (urban) block president Jasvir Chahal alleged he, Gobind Kanda and party workers were canvassing when 25 persons — five of them identified as Narender, Rana, Sonu Barar, Gurmeet Singh and Nirmal Singh — assaulted them.

He alleged the accused abused them and raised slogans against them.

The police have registered a case for rioting, unlawful assembly and criminal intimidation besides various provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Samyukt Kisan Morcha leader Gurnam Singh Charuni rejected the charges, saying: “We are not supporting any candidate.”