…CM indulging in skulduggery with ‘Anaadata’ by playing the emotional card: AAP
Chandigarh, October 22
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab President and MP Bhagwant Mann has accused Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of playing with the sentiments of farmers and farm labourers by pedalling lies about the deadly agriculture Bills brought in to negate the central farm laws.
Bhagwant Mann questioned the Chief Minister, saying “Were the Bills passed in the specially-convened Punjab Assembly session valid, the Amarinder Singh government would not have run away from including procurement of cotton crop and other crops at MSP in the Bills brought in”
In a statement issued from party headquarters on Thursday, Bhagwant Mann said that on the one hand CM Amarinder Singh was playing hide and seek with the gullible farmers in collusion with PM Narendra Modi by bringing in Bills in the Punjab Assembly to negate the laws passed by Parliament, a well thought-out ploy to torpedo the peasant struggle. He lamented that the MSP fixed by the government of for cotton and maize were completely flouted in Punjab ‘mandis’, Punjab, forcing farmers to sell their produce at Rs.1000 per quintal less as against Rs.5745 and Rs.1870 per quintal for cotton and maize, respectively.
The AAP MP asked the Chief Minister to tell the people at large, especially farmers of Punjab, whether the Punjab Vidhan Sabha had the legal and constitutional right to go for an amendment(s) in the Bills already passed by the Parliament. He further asked if these laws guarantee the farmers the purchase of wheat and paddy crop at the MSP?
Bhagwant Mann said the government was trying to befool farmers, adding that until or unless the Punjab government enacted its own law guaranteeing government procurement of all crops at the MSP, the farmers would continue to suffer forever. He added that he (CM Amarinder Singh) had played another cruel joke with the farmers by not including cotton, cottonseed, maize, sunflower and sugarcane in the Bills passed by him.