Manohar Lal Khattar’s anti-farmer agenda exposed: Amarinder Singh hits back at Haryana CM

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s “anti-farmer agenda” has been uncovered as he defended the assault on peasants by accusing the Congress authorities in Punjab of fuelling the unrest in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines, Amarinder Singh mentioned on Monday. Earlier within the day, Khattar put the onus of the unrest in his state in opposition to the Central legislations on the Amarinder Singh authorities in Punjab, the Congress and the Left.

Hitting again, the Punjab chief minister mentioned, “The BJP’s adamant refusal to revoke the legal guidelines mirrored the vested pursuits of the occasion and its management, which had as soon as once more positioned their crony capitalist buddies over the frequent man.”

Blaming the BJP squarely for the unrest, Amarinder Singh mentioned the disaster wouldn’t have assumed such grave proportions had the BJP, together with the Haryana chief minister and his deputy, heeded the farmers’ considerations and empathised with them “as an alternative of taking refuge in shameful lies for the horrendous assaults on the peaceable farmers”.

He mentioned Khattar’s “anti-farmer” agenda has been uncovered because the Haryana chief minister tried to defend the felony assault on protesting farmers by placing the onus of their agitation on Punjab.

“Cannot you see that the farmers of your individual state are offended with you in your apathetic perspective in the direction of them and your occasion’s cussed refusal to repeal the farm legal guidelines?” he posed.

The farmers have been preventing for his or her survival and didn’t want provocation from Punjab or every other state to guard themselves and their households, CM Amarinder Singh mentioned.

“Repeal the farm legal guidelines as an alternative of blaming Punjab for the mess your occasion has put the farming sector in. The BJP should pay for his or her sins within the upcoming Meeting elections in numerous states and in each ballot thereafter,” he mentioned.

Round 10 individuals have been allegedly injured on Saturday as police lathi-charged a bunch of farmers disrupting site visitors motion on a nationwide freeway whereas heading in the direction of Karnal to protest in opposition to a BJP assembly.

A Kisan Mahapanchayat on Monday sought registration of a case in opposition to these concerned within the lathi cost and threatened to put siege to the secretariat there if their calls for usually are not met by September 6.

The Punjab chief minister mentioned the Khattar authorities’s repeated makes an attempt to “forcibly finish the farmers’ agitation and the derogatory and obnoxious phrases used in opposition to farmers by numerous BJP leaders, will backfire”.

Recalling that the farmers had held protests throughout Punjab for 2 months earlier than shifting focus to the Delhi borders, Amarinder Singh mentioned his state had not witnessed a single incident of violence in the course of the interval.

“Even not too long ago, when sugarcane farmers staged protests, we negotiated with them and resolved the problem as an alternative of utilizing brute drive,” he added.

The Punjab chief minister mentioned he and his authorities have been firmly with the farmers of their anti-farm legal guidelines stance and have been even giving compensation and jobs to the households of those that have died on the Delhi borders “due to the BJP’s follies”.

“A authorities or a political occasion which permits such tragic and completely avoidable lack of lives to proceed underneath its watch can not survive,” he added.