Making an emotional appeal to the workers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join the farmers’ stir in New Delhi against the Centre’s black agricultural laws sans party flag, AAP’s Punjab unity president Bhagwant Mann on Sunday exhorted the party rank and file to stand up and be counted.
“The farmers comprise the backbone of Punjab, and without their untiring efforts, the State cannot move forward in any sphere,” said Mann while making it clear that AAP would rise above the party affiliations and stand shoulder to shoulder with the farmers in their hour of need.
“This is no time to stand and stare or just sit quietly on the sidelines, especially when our farmers supported by their womenfolk are braving cold nights and staging road protests fighting tooth and nail to save their lands.
It is indeed tragic that the farming community, which feeds the entire nation, is left to fend for itself by the deaf and dumb Union Government besides Capt Amarinder Singh too, who has also left the farmers in the lurch and is enjoying kingly pleasures,” said Mann.
Mann added that AAP is already out in the open to voice the concern over the just demands of the farmers and would not be content until the concerns of the farmers are properly addressed.
He categorically made it clear that AAP workers would join the farmers’ protests with the sole intention of supporting the farming community in its just cause.
Adding, he said that the workers would assemble from each village and locality would join farmers’ gherao of Delhi on November 26 and 27.
Mann, while beseeching the party workers as well as the leaders, said that farmers occupy the priority slot for us and as per the present circumstances, it was our duty first and foremost as fellow Punjabis to participate in the protest movement in maximum so as to make the anti-people governments bow down before the people’s movement.