Haryana unit of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) affiliated to Khokhar Group has decided not to extend its support to any of the political parties in the Lok Sabha elections in the state and the farmers would be free to exercise their franchise in accordance to their wishes.
Stating this, Hari Singh Khokhar, President of the Haryana unit of the BKU, told media persons here on Friday that the state unit affiliated to Ghasi Ram Nain, had earlier announced its support to the Congress nominees in seven Lok Sabha seats and this was the decision of Nain Group and not Khokhar group.
He said that his group would extend its support to those candidates if they given in writing that they would fulfil the demands of the farmers including grant of remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce marketed by them and not arrest the farmers if they failed to repay the instalments of the loans.
He made fervant appeal to the farmers to express their solidarity with the BKU and cast their vote in accordance with their conscience.