The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday extended legal assistance to the aggrieved farmers, who want to move courts against the BJP leaders for their defamatory remarks against them.
AAP Punjab co-incharge and MLA from Delhi, Raghav Chadha, who was on a two-day Punjab tour, said that some farmers had decided to seek justice after relentless verbal abuse at the hands of BJP leaders, and with the help of the Aam Aadmi Party, notices were issued to Union Minister Giriraj Singh, Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel and BJP’s National General Secretary, Ram Madhav.
Addressing the mediapersons during a press conference in Moga, on Saturday, Chadha said that this was the farmer who had given his blood, his sweat, his entire life to tilling his land. “It is because of the sacrifices made by a farmer and his family that food reaches our homes, our plates, and we are able to eat to our heart’s content. If someone abuses an honest farmer, it is similar to that of abusing Mother India,” he added.
He said farmers had been requesting the Modi-led central government to listen to them, but in turn were only abused. “BJP leaders have at different times described the farmers as terrorists, anti-nationals, goondas, dalaals, agents of Pakistan and China. Does our farmer look like a terrorist? I would like to tell the BJP that our farmers have had enough. They are done with being maligned and abused. They now want to knock at the doors of justice, and we truly believe that victory would be theirs,” said Chadha.
He said it was unfortunate that the ‘annadatas’ who fed people of the country was fighting for their survival, with mothers, elders and small children, who had been in the severe cold on the Delhi borders for over last one month; while the ruthlessly insensitive Modi-led central government was unmoved by the pitiable plight of the farming fraternity. “It is evident that the entire BJP is categorically and strategically working to destroy and discredit the farmers’ movement with their relentless abuse,” he added. He said that the false and frivolous propaganda against the farmers was unbecoming on the part of those behind the propaganda.
Chadha added the aggrieved farmers who reached out to the Aam Aadmi Party, told as to how relentless efforts were made to tarnish them and their honest movement. “AAP vows to stand with the farmers of this country in their fight till the BJP leaders are punished. Right from filing a case, to fighting in court, the party will work with the farmers and for the farmers, helping them every step of the way,” he said.