Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, in his first press conference after being appointed to the top post, on Wednesday instead termed the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) as an “architect”, to avoid any direct attack on his own government. Guns trained. Three Central Agricultural Laws.
Sidhu alleged that the three central agriculture laws were nothing but a ‘xerox’ copy of the contract farming laws introduced in the Punjab Assembly in 2013 by the previous SAD BJP government. He claimed that those controversial laws have been put on hold amid strong protests.
Along with his four working presidents, Sidhu, who has been with the Captain Amarinder Singh government and has publicly criticized his party’s rule in the state on various issues, on Wednesday trained his guns only on the SAD.
They played Badal’s video statements, which claimed that he had made a U-turn only after farmers started protesting against agricultural laws. “They were the ones who first welcomed the laws and then took a U-turn sensing the mood on the ground. BJP and SAD are two sides of the same coin. The breakup of the alliance was the smoke screen. They were one and will be united once again after the election.
Elaborating on both the laws, Sidhu alleged that they are similar in many respects. “Whether it is dispute of settlement, agricultural services, sale of agricultural produce, jurisdiction of settlement between buyer and farmer, imposition of penalty, most of the clauses in the central farm. The laws have been copied by the SAD or provided to the BJP as it was part of the NDA”, the PPCC chief said.
Interestingly, Sidhu refrained from any question on the functioning of the Congress government and also refused to comment on Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s recent statement asking farmers to raise their dharna in Punjab and Haryana and Haryana instead. Was told to focus on the protests in Delhi.
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