The chief minister said the people of Punjab, especially the farmers, would not forgive the SAD. (FILE)
Chandigarh:
Questioning Akalis’ alliance with the NDA, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday asked SAD to list “a pro-farmer initiative” it persuades with the BJP-led Center over the past six years .
Hitting Badals for “perpetuating lies” in recent days about farm bills, he said they had “openly and shamelessly supported” them since the ordinances took effect.
The chief minister, in a statement, said SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal fabricated lies about farm bills, which were fully exposed. .
“Did any of you even call the anti-farm ordinances once until they were introduced in Lok Sabha?” asked the chief minister of Badals.
“Did Harsimrat even once, until her resignation, tell farmers that she was trying to persuade the central government to address their concerns – which she now claims?” he further asked.
Questioning the Akalis alliance with the NDA, the chief minister further asked: “Why is the SAD still part of the NDA given that, by Harsimrat’s own admission, the BJP-led government does not did not respond to the farmers’ concerns she had presented to them? “
Amarinder Singh also asked Harsimrat Kaur and Sukhbir Badal if they could name even one pro-farmer initiative they could have taken in the past six years to persuade the BJP-led government at the Center. to act accordingly.
The chief minister said the people of Punjab, especially the farmers, would not forgive them.
“The ordinances, which you shamelessly supported all along until you decided to back down under political constraints for fear of losing your farmers’ voting bank, were never discussed or even mentioned in the meetings. high-level – a fact that your coalition partners are being deliberately kept in the dark or that you consciously choose to ignore for your own sake, ”he told the Badals.
Unlike the SAD, Congress has maintained a consistent stance against the ordinances that the Center stealthily introduced amid the pandemic and then pushed through Lok Sabha by the sheer gross majority, Amarinder said.
The Badals should stop lying on such a critical issue, and instead engage in the open struggle against the NDA coalition by withdrawing from the alliance, the chief minister said.
He added that their claims to stand side by side with the farmers were “vain and false” as long as they continued to lie on the matter and remained part of the “anti-farmer” central government.
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