Row over Haryana mantri's 'elope' remark on farm stir

Haryana's agriculture minister JP Dalal has stoked a controversy as he termed the farmers who took part in the agitation against the now-repealed central farm laws as useless and shady persons whose "wives and daughters had eloped". Addressing farmers at Gignow town in Bhiwani district on Sunday, Dalal sarcastically remarked that the protesters who participated in the dharna were so useless that even their wives would not listen to them, and yet, they were taking responsibility for the entire farming community.