Chandigarh, December 24, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today flayed chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh for shedding crocodile tears for the cause of farmers even as he was resorting to secret deals with the BJP led central government to sabotage their cause.
In a statement here, former minister Maheshinder Singh Grewal told the chief minister “you have stained your high office by using your position to betray the Kisan sangharsh. This was proved by your own mp – Ravneet Singh Bittu who publicly announced that union minister Piysh Goyal told him to stop protestations in favour of farmers by telling me I would be shocked if he disclosed what had been told to him by you.
It is clear that you backstabbed the cause of the farmers by entering into a secret deal with the BJP. This is why you cut short your planned protest at Raj Ghat and are closeted at your farm house when famers are freezing in bitter cold wave conditions on the borders of Delhi”
Mr Maheshinder Grewal also rubbished the chief minister’s excuse that he had not visited the agitating farmers because they did not want to involve political parties in the protest. “You were asked this question during the cause of your social media interaction yesterday because Punjabis had expected their chief minister to visit the protest site to express solidarity with farmers. It is you who is politicizing the chief minister’s office by linking it with the Congress party which is condemnable”.
The SAD leader said if anyone had adopted a wishy-washy approach to the entire issue it was the chief minister. “You seem to have forgotten that you amended the APMC Act immediately after forming the government in the State. You were also a member of the committee which discussed the then agricultural ordinances threadbare before they came into being.
You even deputed your finance minister to attend committee meetings. You did not even have the guts to tell Congress mps from Punjab to vote against the three Agricultural marketing Bills when they came up for approval in parliament. Even later you sold the interests of the farmers by refusing to intercede on their behalf. Now you are shedding crocodile tears and trying to hide your abysmal failures by trying to apportion blame on others”.
Telling the chief minister to come out of his gilded farm house even now, Mr Grewal said “even as you were oblivious to the suffering of our farmers, former chief minister and SAD Patron Parkash Singh Badal returned his Padma Vibhushan in solidarity with the cause of the peasantry.
SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal is making earnest attempts to form a broad coalition of like minded parties to force the BJP led central government to repeal the hated laws. If anyone is sleeping comfortable without a care in the world about the ‘annadaata’ it is you.
You are yet to announce even government jobs to all 42 farmers who have been martyred during the ongoing agitation. This is how unfeeling and insensitive you and your government are towards the farmers who have not received any help or support from you”, Mr Grewal added.
