Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Sunil Jakhar on Saturday met the protesting Punjab MPs at Jantar Mantar, who are demanding to convene winter session of Parliament to resolve the farm issues.
He urged the Union Government to shun its adamant behaviour to save the democracy and call the winter session without any further delay.
Talking to the mediapersons, Jakhar said that the BJP led Union Government is running away from facing the questions and it is for the first time in the history of world's largest democracy that the Parliament's winter session is not being convened and Modi government is killing democracy.
If there is no discussion in Parliament then what is the use of constructing a new Parliament House, he questioned, while asking that if Bihar election was not affected by COVID-19, then how come disease would only spread with the gathering of MPs.
Jakhar said that dialogue is the foundation of democracy but Modi Government only believes in "Mann ki Baat" and never bothered to listen to people's voice. That’s why millions of farmers are protesting on Delhi roads in bone-chilling weather to save the democracy and the Central Government's plan to mortgage the food security of the country to a handful of corporates.
Farmers are not only fighting against the three black laws but also fighting against the evil thinking that is only in the interest of a few corporate houses, he added.
The revolutionary spirit to resist any sort of injustice, tyranny and oppression is a part of DNA of Punjabis and for us our country comes first, he said while adding that nefarious plans to tarnish the image of farm movement would not succeed.
He further said that the beauty of our democracy is that a common man can become the Prime Minister of the country but today the same Prime Minister is trying to create such a situation that no common man could become the Prime Minister again.
Replying to a media query, Jakhar said that SAD would never be forgiven for the betrayal with Punjab just to keep safe a berth in Union Cabinet. Actually, Akali Dal's leaders were corporates, who played politics in the name of farmers all the time but when the time came to stand by the farming community they betrayed them, he added.