AAP may join Sept 25 bandh
CONGRESS, SAD AND BJP HAVE BETRAYED THE FARMERS AND ARE NOW SHEDDING CROCODILE TEARS, SAYS HARPAL SINGH CHEEMA
HOSHIARPUR : AAP may join the Punjab bandh called by various farmer bodies on September 25 to protest against the enactment of farm-related bills. Leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema said that a decision to this effect will be taken at a party meeting on Sunday.
Cheema, who had come to visit local grain market on receiving complaints that maize was being procured at very low prices, said that new bills would be a death knell for the farming community.
He said that all three major political parties-Congress, SAD and BJP had betrayed the farmers and were now shedding crocodile tears. Terming Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s resignation as a drama, he said political compulsions had forced the SAD leadership to take a U turn on farm bills.
Labourers extend support to farmers SAD stands exposed, resignation was a drama, says Dhindsa
NEW DELHI: Dissident Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Saturday said the party stood exposed for its “double-speak” on the farm bills and asked why Harsimrat Kaur Badal did not resign as minister when the Union cabinet cleared the bills in June.
Dhindsa, who formed the Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic) SANGRUR: : The Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC) has extended support to farmer agitation against agri bills on September 25. Mukesh Maludh, chief of the labour outfit, said the bills are not just anti-farmer, but against the interests of labour class also. after quitting the SAD, said Harsimrat was enacting a “drama” by resigning now and this would not be successful as the party stood exposed before the people of Punjab.
He told PTI that the SAD leadership, including former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, has “not stood by the ‘Panth’ (Sikh community) and the farmers and have betrayed them. I am pained at their attitude and stand on the issue of farm bills”.
On Harsimrat’s resignation, Dhindsa said: “She has enacted an unsuccessful drama. She should have resigned when the cabinet cleared these bills. Farmers are against these bills and are protesting and Harsimrat was forced to resign.” “People have seen the real face of the Badals and they stand exposed before the people of Punjab,” he said.
Dhindsa claimed that no party will align with the SAD now after their “real face” has come before the people, which is, they have cling to power and compromised the interests of farmers and the ‘Panth’.
Dhindsa, who was a part of the SAD till a few months ago, said the people of Punjab will not spare the SAD leadership for “betraying” them.
To attack the SAD, he also cited earlier incidents of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib during the Akali-BJP regime led by Parkash Singh Badal in Punjab.