Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa today accused the SAD-BJP government in the state of leaving Sikh farmers of Gujarat in the lurch.
He said Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad recently but did not take up the issue of displacement of Sikh farmers of Gujarat with him.
Badal met Modi during the Global Agriculture conclave in Ahmedabad last Monday.
Bajwa said the state government's media team had issued a statement that Modi had given an assurance to Badal that the Sikh farmers would not be displaced.
"The assurance purported to have been given by Modi is self-contradictory as his government is not ready to withdraw the SLP filed in the Supreme Court against the Gujarat High Court's decision in favour of farmers," he said.
Bajwa alleged Modi was determined to dislocate 50,000-odd Sikh farmers from Kutch in Gujarat.
He asked Badal to categorically tell people what was his demand and what Modi had exactly assured him.
The PPCC chief said the Reliance Group had signed an agreement with then Congress government in Punjab to invest Rs 5,000 crore in the state to establish an Agro Food chain.
It was for the first time that any corporate house had shown interest to invest such a big amount in the agriculture sector, he said.
But, the SAD-BJP government cancelled the MoU, Bajwa said.
He said BJP MP Navjot Sidhu had rightly stated that the SAD-BJP government was building castles in the air while there was no development on the ground.
