Reacting to the BJP attempts of suppressing the ongoing farmers’ movement with the help of their aides and ‘goons’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) taking a serious note of the matter has demanded from the Punjab government to provide police security to the struggling farmers, who had been facing the heat of the BJP Government.
Addressing the media, AAP’s national spokesperson and Punjab unit co-incharge Raghav Chadha said that the BJP ‘goons’ had been continuously attacking the farmers of the country from last few days in a bid to intimidate them to vacate the protest sites. He said that earlier the miscreants backed by BJP had threatened and attacked the farmers with sticks at Ghazipur border and yesterday also, the BJP-RSS goons, including several local BJP leaders, attacked the farmers, who had been protesting peacefully from over last two months and pelted stones on them at Singhu border in broad daylight.
He said that through some of the photographs and videos that had gone viral, the people involved in these incidents came out to be office-bearers, councillors, local leaders and MLAs of the BJP, who along with their associates and goons had attacked the peacefully protesting farmers, which was intolerable and unjustifiable. “The continuous attacks on our ‘annadatas’ from the last few days and the unfortunate incident that occurred at the Red Fort on January 26 has established the role of the BJP of suppressing the farmers’ movement. It has also proved the intention of the BJP, that they will attack the farmers, intimidate them and create disturbance in the farmers’ movement. With this, there is a clear safety and security threat to the farmers,” he said.
Chadha said that under this, the role of Delhi police had also been clear that they were assisting and helping the BJP goons by letting them enter the protesting sites, not initiating any action during the attack and facilitating them. He said that the Delhi police who directly report to PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, was working at the behest of the BJP in inciting violence and getting these attacks done by their goons. “Under such circumstances, we cannot expect Delhi police to protect our farmers and thus with full responsibility, we demand Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to provide police security to the farmers at all the borders,” he added.
He added the Captain Amarinder had been providing police security to leaders, influential people, even his advisors, OSDs, cronies and every second person, who were also covered with the same outside the state as well. “When such people and even Captain’s friends from Pakistan could get police security covers, even outside the home states, then why can’t Captain Amarinder Singh government also provide security to all the farmers, their leaders who are sitting on the Delhi borders as per the threat perception, they are facing from BJP and their goons,” said Chadha.
Demanding immediate security for the farmers, Chadha said that Capt Amarinder Singh should send security covers of Punjab police for the farmers at all the borders for their protection in this time of need. Taking a dig at Captain Amarinder Singh, the AAP leader said that Captain had been rescuing the BJP on their attempts of suppressing the farmers’ movement by giving them clean chit and diverting the issue to outside agencies. “Captain is trying to save the BJP on the attacks being made by their goons on the farmers. Captain Amarinder should stop making frivolous statements and playing dirty politics in such a sensitive time,” he added.
‘EVEN CBI CAN’T ENTER A STATE WITHOUT PERMISSION,’ SAYS PPCC CHIEF SUNIL JAKHAR, RIDICULING DEMAND FOR DEPLOYMENT OF PUNJAB POLICE AT DELHI BORDERS
Ridiculing the demand of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for deployment of Punjab Police to protect the agitating farmers at the borders of the national capital, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Sunil Jakhar, on Saturday said even the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cannot enter a state without permission, and added that, in any case, “Congress was not running an anarchist government in Punjab like Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi, where street politics by the ruling party had long replaced real governance.”
The PPCC Chief was reacting to AAP spokesman Raghav Chadha’s statement asking that Punjab Police be positioned at the Delhi borders for the safety and security of farmers from attacks by alleged BJP goons, who he said had the protection of Delhi Police.
“Don’t you know anything about the principles and rules of police jurisdiction?,” the PPCC chief remarked, asking Chadha to stop making a mockery of the sensitive and grave situation prevailing in the national capital with his frivolous and senseless statements. “How can a state police force enter Delhi or any other state, when even a central agency like CBI has no such authority or jurisdiction?” asked Jakhar. Unlike the AAP government in Delhi, which clearly had no scruples about trampling the law in favour of political theatrics and drama, the Congress government in Punjab believed in following the rule of the law, he added.
Further taking a dig at the AAP leader, Jakhar asked “why doesn’t your AAP government in the capital send out the Delhi Home Guards, who report directly to the state government, to protect the farmers sitting at your doorstep?” “And with 66 MLAs spread around the city, why don’t you help out the farmers instead of wasting your time giving advice to the Punjab government,” he further quipped.
Trashing Chadha’s comments on the protection provided by Punjab Police to various leaders etc, Jakhar asked the AAP spokesperson if he knew more about individual threat perceptions in Punjab than the Chief Minister or his government. “Why don’t you leave the job of running Punjab to us while you concentrate on managing the situation in Delhi, where all the problem is happening?” Chadha is speaking nonsense, with no logic to his banter, said Jakhar. Everyone knows who is toeing the BJP line, he added, pointing to the quick implementation of one of the Farm Laws in Delhi by the Kejriwal government.
