By scrapping the three contentious farms laws, the BJP may have made attempts to douse the fire of resentment among the farmers and their supporters before the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh polls, but the at the end of the tunnel even after the fire-fighting attempts appears to be bleak in Punjab.
Facing social boycotts and protests across the State for over a year now, the BJP leadership is expecting a turnaround with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to repeal farm laws that comes close on the heels of its decision to reopen Kartarpur Sahib Corridor to woo a majority of Sikh voters in the border state.
However, the political observers are of the view that the “announcement” was too late to benefit the BJP in Punjab.
In Punjab, the BJP bore the brunt of the farmers’ agitation with its leaders virtually confined to their houses under the fear of being attacked by the farmers or the protesters.
The farmers have staged protest against the BJP leaders across the State and also announced their social boycott. So much so, that the BJP’s every public meeting or programme was disrupted by the protesters.
The villages banned the entry of politicians, particularly those from BJP. They were stopped midway and gheraoed. BJP’s MLA from Abohar Arun Narang had to face farmers’ wrath twice.
