15
Oct
Kurukshetra (Balwinder Singh): A protest demanding timely paddy procurement turned volatile on Wednesday when Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Gurnam Singh Charuni allegedly slapped a senior food and civil supplies department official in full public view. The incident led to Charuni’s swift detention by local police. The confrontation occurred outside the Kurukshetra Deputy Commissioner’s office, where a large gathering of farmers had assembled to protest against delays in lifting their harvested paddy crop. Tensions had been rising throughout the day, but matters escalated dramatically when Charuni, who had been addressing the crowd from atop a tractor trolley, climbed down and…