AAP rejects Amarinder Singh’s request to meet with president on farm bills

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Chandigarh:

The Aam Admi party on Saturday rejected Punjab’s chief minister Amarinder Singh’s appeal for lawmakers from all sides to accompany him to meet with President Ram Nath Kovind on November 4 to ask him to give his assent to agricultural laws modified state.

Calling the chief minister’s decision a “mere political drama,” party leader Aam Aadmi and opposition leader Harpal Singh Cheema said his party would not be part of the delegation headed by Amarinder Singh to meet with the president.

Mr Cheema said the three agricultural bills passed in the state assembly by “rushing” amendments to overturn “controversial” central laws were “meaningless,” saying it would not help. protect the interests of farmers.

He said there was no point in meeting with the president as the governor of Punjab has yet to sign the bills.

He alleged that Amarinder Singh was trying to “deceive” the people of the Punjab, especially the farmers, by projecting himself as their champion.

AAP MLA said that instead of meeting with the President, if the Chief Minister is leading a delegation from all parties, to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the AAP would gladly accept the offer.

“If Amarinder had decided to organize a ‘dharna’ outside the Prime Minister’s residence to repeal black laws, including the Air Pollution Ordinance, the AAP would have given him full support.” , he said in a statement.

Amarinder Singh was a “mere puppet” in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is why he had so far not met neither the Prime Minister nor the Union Minister of Agriculture, he said. asserted.

Amarinder Singh called on all MPs to “stand up and be counted” and rise above party lines to safeguard the interests of the state which are “trampled” by the Union government.

The Punjab Assembly this month passed a resolution rejecting the centre’s new agricultural laws and passed four bills to counter controversial legislation passed by parliament.