Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said farmers’ protests were not in the interest of the state at all and asked farmers’ unions to call off protests in Punjab and instead focus on other parts of India. The Chief Minister said that the ongoing protests at 113 places in the state were affecting the economic development.
He was addressing after laying the foundation stone of a government college in Mukhliana village of Chhabbewal assembly constituency. He said that he is hopeful that the agitating farmers will accept his point.
Amarinder said, “If farmers want to stage a dharna, they should go to Haryana and Delhi instead of Punjab”, he said in his address.
He urged the farmers’ unions not to protest in Punjab as the state government and the people of Punjab had already expressed solidarity with them.
I want to tell the farmers of Punjab that this is their land. Their ongoing protest here is not in the interest of the state. Instead of protesting in the state, farmers should pressurize the Center to repeal agricultural laws: Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh in Hoshiarpur pic.twitter.com/3JFSt0cpuZ— ANI (@ANI) September 13, 2021
However, he expressed concern over the inordinate delay by the Center in meeting the demands made by the farmers. The CM further said that instead of holding protests in the state, he should pressurize the central government to bring in a “drastic and anti-farmer” agriculture law.
Accusing the Shiromani Akali Dal of “cheating” farmers on the issue of new agricultural laws, the CM alleged that the laws were framed with the consent of the Akalis. He claimed that Harsimrat Kaur Badal and even former CM Parkash Singh Badal had argued in favor of the laws, but later took a “U-turn” on them.
The Chief Minister said that the Constitution has been amended 127 times since 1950. “Then why not one more time to repeal the agricultural laws to provide assistance to the farmers sitting on the Singhu and Tikri borders?” He said that the Punjab government has given Rs 5 lakh to the kin of every farmer in the state who was killed during the agitation.
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