Chandigarh, December 31, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)
Former MP and Punjab Congress President Mr Sunil Jakhar on Thursday accused the BJP of conspiring to instigate a confrontation between peacefully protesting farmers and local authorities in Punjab as part of a larger game plan to divert attention from the core issues.
In a statement issued today, he said the damage to mobile transmission towers in Punjab possibly could be a well calibrated mischief act by certain anti-social elements at the behest of their political masters with an aim to defame farmers and instigate a confrontation.
Mr Jakhar lamented the ill-advised decision of the Punjab Governor Mr V.P Badnore to summon Punjab chief secretary and the DGP based on skewed inputs provided by BJP leaders. The state Congress chief warned against attempts being orchestrated to futilely meddle in affairs of the state maintaining it was pre-conceived assault on the federal structure of the nation.
“The Congress has always stood for autonomy of constitutional posts. But the activism being manifested by the Governor tantamount to baselessly trespassing states domain,” Mr Jakhar said, adding that it should be clear that Punjab is neither West Bengal nor Puducherry where incumbent Governors have chosen the path of unconstructive political activism. Such erosion of constitutional propriety will be resisted in Punjab, he said.
While rubbishing BJP’s attempts to project Punjab as a state with waning law and order, Mr Sunil Jakhar said the state under the able leadership of chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh has remained peaceful sans any untoward incident, unlike in neighbouring Haryana, even during the last several months of farmer agitation over the three black farms laws promulgated by the Centre.
“Where were BJP leaders when farmers were helplessly squatting on railway tracks and braving the bone-chilling winter out on the roads. Their loyalty towards the corporates stands exposed,” he said, while adding that BJP leaders have been more bothered about corporates and towers than the farmers struggling to make ends meet.
