Summary:
“The court had also ruled that booking farmers for stubble burning was no solution to the problem,” he remarked. BKU general secretary Jagdev Singh Kaniawali sounded a note of warning to the cooperative and other banks for harassment of debt-ridden farmers by threats of attachment of property. He said farmers – under the banner of BKU – would launch a movement against highhandedness of the banks and would also gherao the Punjab Cooperatives Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa. Another BKU member, Gurmeet Singh Golewal said a hike of just Rs 85 per quintal in MSP of wheat was a cruel joke with farmers. He said all cases under Section 188 of the IPC registered against farmers for stubble burning be cancelled..