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Asking the government to withdraw the three farm laws, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM) on Tuesday accused the Centre of treating farmers the way it should be treating China on the borders of the country, as per PTI report. Participating in a discussion in Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President for his address, Owaisi said the "infrastructure" that should have been created at the borders to check Chinese troops was erected at Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur borders to prevent farmers from entering Delhi.
According to PTI, he wanted to know why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was "shying" away from taking the name of China which is responsible for the killing of Indian soldiers and constructing a village in Arunachal Pradesh. Owaisi hoped that during his reply to the debate, PM Modi will blame China for its actions against India.
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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said BJP leaders were facing spontaneous anger of farmers and rejected as hilarious claims of the saffron party's state unit that the protesters were not peasants but Congress workers, as per PTI. Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma had earlier in the day accused the Punjab government of organising protests under the guise of farmers' agitation to "prevent" candidates of the saffron party from campaigning ahead of the February 14 civic polls.
Singh said the cornered BJP failed to muster candidates to contest even 50 per cent of the civic body seats and tried pathetically to shift blame for the farmers' wrath on the Congress, according to PTI. "The BJP should start preparing itself for political oblivion... Punjab would prove to be the party's (BJP) nemesis," Singh said in a statement here. The BJP's fate is now sealed, not just in Punjab but also at the Centre, where its despotic rule is all set to end, he said.
What you see on the roads, and which you allege to be the Congress' handiwork, is the spontaneous anger triggered among farmers by your arrogant anti-farmer attitude, said Singh. He rejected as hilarious Punjab BJP's claims that the protesters it is facing on its campaign trail for the upcoming municipal polls are not farmers but Congress workers.
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The Akali Dal on Tuesday accused the government of committing atrocities on farmers agitating against the three agricultural laws at Delhi's borders and criticised it for linking the peasants' movement with terrorists and Khalistanis, PTI reported. Akali Dal member Harsimrat Kaur Badal said farmers are braving the cold and waiting at Delhi's borders but the government's "eyes and ears are shut", according to PTI.
"On Constitution Day (November 26), lathis and tear gas rained on unarmed farmers," she alleged participating the debate on the motion to thank the President's address to the joint sitting of Parliament at the start of the Budget session. The Akali Dal was part of the ruling NDA till it quit the alliance in September 2020 in protest against the three laws. Subsequently, Badal, who was a minister in the Narendra Modi government since 2014, resigned from her post. Waving posters and photos of farmers, who died during the agitation, she said no sympathetic word has come from the government for them.
"I was in the government for six years but when it became inhuman, what is the point of staying in such a government. Even when these (agriculture) ordinances were brought in, I told the cabinet to consult more people. I was told that they will do that when the ordinances become law," she said. "They gave us the laws and told us to take them to farmers. When we did that, we understood the apprehensions of the farmers. We gave a letter to the agriculture minister," she said.
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Topics :Andhra Pradesh governmentToday NewsNarendra Moditop news of the dayfarmers protestAfghanistanAshraf Ghani
First Published: Feb 09 2021 | 7:43 AM IST