BJP govt has cheated, insulted farmers: Cong on Mandsaur firing report

The Congress today hit out at the BJP over the probe report on last year's police firing incident in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh as it accused the saffron party of "cheating" farmers and insulting them by dubbing those killed as 'anti-social elements'.

Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said the report of the SK Jain inquiry committee, set up by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government to look into the June 2017 Mandsaur firing incident, has not only cheated the farmers but also humiliated them.

"Farmers of the country have been insulted in the report on Mandsaur agitation and firing in which five farmers were killed by the police. Farmers killed in Mandsaur have been dubbed as anti-social elements and we totally reject this report," he told reporters.

Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala said, "Is a farmer an anti-social element and his murder necessary and justified? Shivraj Singh Chouhan government's inquiry report is hiding the sin of Mandsaur shooting."