After Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal announced their support to the Punjabi farmers in Gujarat, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa also assured all kind of support to a delegation of Sikh farmers from Kutch area of Gujarat who met him at Congress Bhawan here.
Addressing a Press conference along with Gujarat Sikhs, Bajwa said that he had sought appointment from AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue of Gujarat Sikhs. He said that farmers from Punjab and Haryana (then joint Punjab) had migrated to Gujarat 40 years ago on the invitation of former Prime Minister lal Bahadur Shashtri. Bajwa alleged that the BJP Government in Gujarat has now freezed their land and asked them to sell their land and return to Punjab.