BKU (Ekta) to boycott SAD-BJP candidates in Punjab

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Press Trust of India Moga
Last Updated : Mar 08 2014 | 9:30 PM IST
BKU (Ekta) today said it will boycott the candidates of ruling SAD-BJP alliance in the upcoming general elections as the Punjab government was not paying heed to their demand for allotment of land to farm labourers.
"If the candidates enter villages for seeking votes they will be greeted with black flags," Farmers' organisation Bharti Kisaan Union (Ekta) general secretary Sukhdev Singh said here.
"If the ruling alliance failed to concede farmers' demands who had been sitting at indefinite dharna since March 3 at Moga and Muktsar then the farmers would be forced to take next course of action," he said.
The farmers owing allegiance to the outfit may boycott the ruling alliance in the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April 30, he said.
The protesting farmers were demanding allotment and possession of plot to the farm labourers in the state.
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First Published: Mar 08 2014 | 9:30 PM IST

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