Flaying Punjab BJP president for stooping too low in his efforts to tarnish the ongoing farmers’ struggle, Punjab’s senior Congress leaders and Cabinet Ministers on Monday dared Ashwani Sharma to not to cross lines of propriety and decency in political discourse.
Senior Cabinet Ministers, including Brahm Mohindra, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Vijay Inder Singla, OP Soni and Sunder Sham Arora, in a joint statement castigated Sharma for leveling unfounded allegations against the state top police officer, while adding, “this hollow politicking won't help BJP’s already failed cause”.
“You have called our farmers Khalistanis, urban-naxals and ultra-left, have not you”, the Ministers asked Sharma adding that the BJP only masters in deflecting the issue, which won't work in Punjab as farmers have seen through your machinations and vile promises.
“His frustration in face of massive public rejection of farmer laws is understandable but losing mental balance so soon is not,” the Cabinet Minister Brahm Mohindra quipped referring to the state BJP president’s allegations against the DGP.
The Ministers collectively flayed Sharma for trying to vitiate Punjab’s peaceful atmosphere by these “irresponsible” statements, while warning BJP leader to abstain from any such thing and focus on resolving farmer concerns.
Underlining the State Government's resolve to ensure farmers’ welfare, Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora said that our anndatas have been named and shamed by BJP whose nefarious designs they have seen through.
“BJP is shamelessly trying to divert attention from pressing issues the nation faces by indulging in irresponsible and dangerous politicking,” he
said adding that the
Punjab Government would never allow the Centre to succeed in its plans to destroy agriculture at behest of crony capitalists.
“This is shameful, petty, reprehensible, and totally uncalled for what Sharma has said,” Food Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said, adding that this tantamount to tarnishing farmers’ struggle by calling them goons.
Pointing out that BJP had miserably failed to read the pulse of farmers across the country, Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla said that Punjabis especially are feeling cheated by the Centre’s policies and would demonstrate their anguish by packing off BJP from the state in next assembly elections.