Farmers defaced the walls and the main gate of the house of newly appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Harinder Singh Kahlon with mud on Wednesday late night. Kahlon was not in the house, which is in the Dakoha Road locality of the city, with farmers also disconnecting electricity supply during their protest. Farmers claim to be angry at Kahlon’s call for arrest of all comrades. Angry farmers also burnt his effigy, with the police present at the spot failing to stop them.
Kahlon is also claimed to have said at a BJP function that if farmers came to his house with dung, they must also bring a cot and a white sheet; farmers have seen this as a veiled threat. On Thursday, Kahlon issued another statement claiming that the farmers had twisted his statements, but he apologised, if he had hurt anybody’s feelings.