Farmers will beat us with sticks: JJP MLA urges party to withdraw support to BJP in Haryana

JJP MLA Devender Babli said the situation is such that farmers will beat MLAs with sticks if they enter their villages. He said JJP must leave the BJP govt.

A day before the Haryana assembly takes up the Congress' no-confidence motion against the Manohar Lal Khattar government, senior Jananayak Janata Party (JJP) MLA Devender Singh Babli has urged his party to withdraw support to the BJP government over farmers' issues. Devender Babli said the situation in rural Haryana is such that people won't let MLAs to enter their villages. "The situation is such that we (JJP) should now leave the government because people are unhappy with us. People don't let us enter their villages. I urge the chief minister and deputy chief minister to hold events in villages...or any other MLA to do it...people will beat us with sticks. We will need to get iron armour and helmets to protect ourselves," Devender Singh Babli said.