Punjab CM Amarinder Singh slams Manohar Lal Khattar for defending assault on farmers

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday slammed his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar for defending the criminal assault on peacefully protesting farmers by putting the onus of their agitation on his state saying Khattars remarks had completely exposed his governments antifarmer agendaThe Punjab Chief Minister reminded Khattar and his deputy Dushyant Chautala that the farmers who were protesting against the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP meeting in Karnal when the police baton charged them belonged to Haryana and not PunjabHe was reacting to Khattars and Chautalas allegations of Punjab being behind the farmers agitation against the farm lawsBlaming the BJP squarely for the farmers wrath Amarinder Singh said the crisis would not have assumed such grave proportions had the BJP including the Haryana CM and Deputy CM heeded the farmers concerns and empathised with their pain instead of taking refuge in shameful lies for the horrendous attacks on the peaceful farmersHe trashed Khattars claim that the Haryana Police used force only after the farmers disturbed the states law and order citing the viral video of an official purportedly giving explicit instructions to the cops to bash up the farmers nailed the CMs liesHow did the SDM know that the farmers intended to resort to stone pelting etc as claimed by Khattar Amarinder Singh askedCant you see that the farmers of your own state are angry with you for your apathetic attitude towards them and your partys stubborn refusal to repeal the farm laws he asked the Haryana leaders adding the farmers were fighting for their survival and did not need provocation from Punjab or any other state to protect themselves and their familiesThe sentiment of the entire country was with the farmers in the matter of the draconian and blatantly undemocratic farm laws imposed by the BJPled central government in the midst of the Covid pandemic said Amarinder Singh adding that the BJPs adamant refusal to revoke the legislations reflected the vested interests of the party and its leadershipAlso ReadLathicharge on Haryana farmers akin to second Jallianwala Bagh Shiv SenaRepeal the farm laws instead of blaming Punjab for the mess your party has put the farming sector in said Amarinder Singh warning that the BJP would have to pay for their sins in the upcoming Assembly elections in various states and in every poll thereafterThe Khattar governments repeated attempts to forcibly end the farmers agitation and the derogatory and obnoxious terms used against farmers by various BJP leaders will only backfire on their party he addedRecalling that the farmers had held protests across Punjab for two months before shifting focus to the Delhi borders the Chief Minister pointed out that his state had not witnessed a single incident of violence during the periodEven recently when sugarcane farmers staged protests we negotiated with them and resolved the issue instead of using brute force to try and subjugate them he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever