Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab unit on Thursday took offence to the “reprehensive” statement of the Union Minister of State Rao Saheb Danve for labeling the struggling farmers as agents of China and Pakistan, while lashing out at the BJP for “stooping to a new low”.
“The truth behind such reprehensive statements of motor-mouthed BJP leaders is the humongous response pouring in from across the country. BJP Government is playing to the gallery to appease its patron corporate houses,” said AAP’s Punjab unit president Bhawant Mann.
He said that the Modi dispensation should tell its motor-mouthed Ministers that behind the ongoing massive Kisan movement were not China and Pakistan “but the mothers, fathers, sisters and other kin of the valiant soldiers whose families are fighting against the draconian Modi Government to save their future”.
The Prime Minister should tell the loose cannons to maintain decency of language,” he said. Mann said that the Modi Government should never forget that it is the brave sons of the agitating farmers who are guarding the country’s frontiers against China and Pakistan.
“The Modi Government is indulging in a vilification campaign against the farmers and maligning both the farmers and jawans of the country to appease the corporate houses,” he said while adding that the Modi Government should bear in mind that its nefarious design would never succeed in weakening the farmers’ struggle which had emerged as a movement of the people of the country.
Mann said that behind the ongoing peasant movement were the people of the country from all sections of society, including traders, students, men, women, and others who stood rock solid behind the ongoing struggle being fought on the Delhi-Haryana borders amid cold and chilling winter nights.