Chhavi Bhatia

Hisar: Showing their indignation towards the ruling BJP government in Haryana once again, farmers inaugurated two parks in Hansi town and an office of a power department in a village in Hisar on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. The aforementioned were to be inaugurated by local legislators on Monday.

Hansi BJP MLA Vinod Bhayana was scheduled to inaugurate recently renovated Lala Hukam Chand Jain Memorial Park and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Park and formally hand it over to the public on Monday. However, a group of farmers from nearby villages reached the Lala Hukam Chand Memorial Park late Sunday night and invited a local priest, Swami Ichchapuri who inaugurated the park. “Ichchhapuri has been supporting the Kisan Morcha and is a regular at the Ramayana Toll Plaza where the farmers have been holding a sit-in for the last few months,” said Shamsher Nambardar, member, Bharatiya Kisan Union.

The farmers also blackened the name of the legislator written on the foundation stone plaque set up inside the park. Shaheed Bhagat Singh was also inaugurated by the farmers on Monday morning. Earlier on, the farmers had waited for Bhayana to turn up for the function to stage a protest in front of him. Farmers across the state have been boycotting functions by BJP and JJP leaders as part of their agitation against the new farm laws.

Meanwhile, in Hisar, farmers reached a newly constructed office of the power department at village Bado Patti after learning that Barwala MLA Jogi Ram Sihag was scheduled to inaugurate it. After waiting for him for a few hours, they got it inaugurated from an elderly woman. “75-year-old Mandey Devi inaugurated the building. We also put a tricolour at the building,” said Kuldeep Kharad, a local BKU leader.