CM PLAYED HOAX ON FARMERS IN LEAGUE WITH CENTRE, SAYS SAD
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday alleged that it was condemnable that after playing a hoax on the farmers of Punjab in league with the central government, chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh was now trying to sell the fraud as an achievement.
In a statement, the SAD chief said it was shameful that Amarinder colluded with the Centre simply to get the ‘rail roko’ agitation of the farmer organisations lifted and now he was trying to mislead Punjabis by trying to shift the blame of his own failures on others.
Asking the CM to come clean and tell Punjabis why he had chosen to legislate on a subject on the concurrent list which would require central assent, Sukhbir asked: “Isn’t this a clear sign of collusion with the BJP government at the Centre?” the SAD chief said.
Sukhbir’s U- turn on farm laws reflects lack of moral scruples: Capt
Chief minister Amarinder Singh on Friday attacked Shiromani Akali Dal ( SAD) for its “U-turn” on the farm laws and attacked the party chief, Sukhbir Singh Badal, for repeatedly compromising the interests of the farmers with his brazen lies.
“By rejecting the state’s amendment bills, which his party had backed in the Vidhan Sabha, Sukhbir had not just exposed his lack of moral scruples but had also echoed the recent statements of various BJP leaders,” the CM said in a statement.
He said this showed a clear collusion between the SAD and BJP, suggesting that the entire drama of Harsimrat’s resignation from the Union cabinet and the withdrawal of the Akalis from NDA was nothing but a total farce aimed at befooling the farmers and sabotaging their fight against the central laws, he added.
“First you actively and wholeheartedly supported the Centre’s malicious Farm Ordinances, then quit the NDA calling their Bills anti-farmer, then indulged in a whole lot of political drama through protest rallies and yatras across the state in purported support of the farmers, then openly voted for the state government’s amendment bills, and are now rejecting the same,” the chief minister said.