The day when BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was holding rally to project his secular credentials, Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa raked the issue of discrimination and injustice done to the members of Sikh community in Gujarat while accusing the senior BJP leader of “dividing the citizens of nation on religious and geographical lines”.
In a letter flashed to Narendra Modi before he arrived to address the Delhi rally, Partap Singh Bajwa appealed him to withdraw the appeal filed in the Supreme Court by his Government against the Gujarat High Court’s unanimous decision given in favour of Sikh farmers facing displacement from their land holdings.
He reminded Modi the hapless state of Gujarat Sikh farmers in Kutch district who were asked to go back to Punjab after they were declared non-agriculturists on account of flawed
interpretation of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural land (Vidarbha Region and Kutch Area) Act 1958 by your government officials.
Bajwa asked Modi to consider “historical context” while addressing the issue that has the potential of fragmenting our country on narrow and parochial lines.
PPCC president told Modi that as a consequence of “draconian” order issued by Gujarat Government, the agricultural accounts of all such farmers stand frozen.