mumbai shiv sena on monday slammed the bjpled regimes treatment meted out to protesting farmers adding it was cruel to use water cannons on them amid a cold wave sweeping parts of north indiathe farmers have been protesting at delhis borders since five days against the new farm laws and have said they will not accept any conditional dialogue and threatened to block all five entry points to the national capitalour farmers are being treated as terrorists and attacked on delhi borders while terrorists are killing our soldiers on the border in kashmir an editorial in shiv sena mouthpiece saamana saidthe sena singled out haryana chief minister manohar lal khattar for claiming a khalistani link in the protestsbjp wants to create anarchy khalistan is a closed chapter for which indira gandhi and general arunkumar vaidya laid down their lives it saidthe government is using all its might to crush political opponents but why is this determination not seen while dealing with the countrys enemies it askedin the last one month 11 soldiers from maharashtra attained martyrdom while fighting enemies on the borders the sena saidreferring to the giant statue of sardar patel erected by pm narendra modi and amit shah in gujarat the editorial said patel was also a leader of farmers and led many farmers agitation against the british his statues eyes must be moist now seeing how farmers are being treated it saidcentral agencies like ed and cbi are being used as weapons against political opponents the sena saidthese agencies should also get a chance to display their valour it said and suggested that personnel of ed and cbi should be deployed in ladakhand kashmir to help the army fight indias enemies