Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday strongly objected to the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s remarks calling the farmers’ movement and farmers’ parliament, absurd.
“The dictatorial spirit has infiltrated the Central Government leaders, who are making such frivolous and absurd statements, who themselves are trying in vain to prove others wrong by making such statements,” said AAP’s Punjab unit president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann.
Mann said that the reality was that the anti-agriculture black laws, being imposed in the name of agrarian reform, “are nonsensical, which the farmers have not asked for...When the deadly laws, enacted by the corporate houses, are imposed on the annadatas, it is natural that there would be opposition from farmers and labourers along with all sections of the society dependent on agriculture”.
“If the government does not give up its attempt to ignore or suppress the protests against democratic values with dictatorial arrogance, the farmers’ parliament or the agitation will not be confined to Delhi, but will spread across the country,” said Mann.
Mann added that AAP has been adamant against these three agricultural laws since its drafting, till date, and would continue to do so till these laws are repealed. “During the monsoon session, I would not miss any opportunity to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, along with all the ruling parliamentarians and ministers, outside or inside the Parliament House,” declared.
Mann said that during the monsoon session, he had moved adjournment motion in the Parliament for four consecutive times, so that the Government could put aside all parliamentary business and discuss agriculture laws only and take the right steps to repeal them through Parliament. “But the Modi Government has become so stubborn that it does not see the farmers who have been protesting for eight months and their hundreds of sacrifices,” he added.