Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab unit on Sunday has accused the State Governor VP Singh Badnore for summoning Punjab officials by using the pretext of law and order and the remarks made by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, as a ploy by the Congress and BJP to divert attention from the farmers’ movement.
“Today, every resident of Punjab is supporting the farmers’ movement in his own way. But the Capt Amarinder Singh-led State Government and the BJP want to divert people’s attention deliberately,” said AAP’s state unit president Bhagwant Mann.
Mann said that following the policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Punjab Governor was showing such seriousness in distracting the people of Punjab from the farmers’ movement. “Hundreds of youth are deprived of education due to non-availability of scholarships. Why does the Governor not call the Punjab officials, when young boys and girls are beaten up badly by the Punjab police for seeking employment,” he added.
He further said that for the last three months, the farmers of Punjab had been agitating on the streets, day and night, for their existence and to save their livelihood. “Why did the Governor not take up the issue with the central government that the farmers of my state are in trouble?” questioned Mann.
Lashing out at Capt Amarinder Singh on his statement that he was the Home Minister and the Governor should summon him, Mann said that the former had failed on every front. “The BJP and Captain government are playing friendly matches to suppress the farmers’ movement so that people’s attention can be drawn towards it,” he added.
Asking the Congress and BJP to apologise to the people of Punjab for their mistakes, Mann appealed to the people of Punjab to beware of the maneuvers being used by Capt Amarinder and Modi Governments to weaken the farmers’ movement.