Stop being mediator to corporates, take heed to farmers: AAP to PM

Starting his two-day Punjab tour from Moga Saturday, Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) newly appointed state co-incharge Raghav Chadha met the households of farmers who died throughout the ongoing agitation towards the three central agri legal guidelines.
He mentioned that it was ‘very unfortunate that the annadatas who feed our country were agitating in the severe cold’ and farmers have been ‘dying’ on the Delhi borders however the dictatorial central and state authorities have been neither listening to the voice of the farmers nor seeing their ache. Chadha appealed to the central authorities to take heed to the plight of the farmers, as an alternative of changing into ‘mediator to a handful of capitalists’.
He demanded that the federal government ought to repeal the three legal guidelines within the subsequent assembly to be held on January 4 and the farmers have to be given the authorized proper to MSP on each crop.
Earlier, Chadha, accompanied by former MP Sadhu Singh and MLAs Budhram, Prof Baljinder Kaur, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, and Master Baldev Singh reached the residence of the Makhan Khan (44), who died of coronary heart assault at Singhu border on December 14. Makhan had been components of the of farmers’ motion since November 26.
Chadha additionally met the household of 80-year-old Gurbachan Singh, who died on November 30, throughout the ongoing farmers’ protest in Moga. Talking to the media after assembly the farmers’ households, Chadha mentioned he had not as a political chief “but only to join the grief of the families as a sewadar”.
Chadha mentioned that AAP has prolonged authorized help to the farmers, who need to transfer courts towards the BJP leaders for his or her defamatory remarks towards them. “It is because of the sacrifices made by a farmer and his family that food reaches our homes, our plates, and we are able to eat. Abusing an honest farmer, is similar to abusing Mother India,” he mentioned.
“BJP leaders have at different times described the farmers as terrorists, anti-nationals, goondas, dalaals, agents of Pakistan and China. Does our farmer look like a terrorist? I would like to tell the BJP that our farmers have had enough. They are done with being maligned and abused. They now want to knock at the doors of justice, and we truly believe that victory would be theirs,” mentioned Chadha.
The AAP chief mentioned that some farmers have determined to “seek justice after relentless verbal abuse at the hands of BJP leaders”. The AA, he mentioned, “vows to stand with the farmers” of their battle until the BJP leaders are punished. “Right from filing a case, to fighting in court, the party will work with the farmers and for the farmers, helping them every step of the way,” he mentioned.

Chadha mentioned that greater than 20 BJP leaders together with Union Ministers Giriraj Singh, Piyush Goyal and Ravi Shankar Prasad, MP Manoj Tiwari, Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel and get together nationwide common secretary Ram Madhav, and Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar have allegedly used unparliamentary language and hurled abuses on the farmers.
“Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, a farmer from Amritsar, had sent a legal notice to Union Minister Giriraj Singh, seeking an unconditional apology for his defamatory and derogatory remarks made on December 12. The minister had stated that foreign forces had entered the farmers’ movement, and posters of Khalistan were being put up. Similarly on December 17, Gujarat’s deputy CM Nitin Patel had said that in the name of farmers, anti-national elements, terrorists, Khalistanis, Communists and pro-China people had sneaked into the agitation. Taking objection to such accusations, Ramneek Singh Randhawa from Jalandhar sent a notice to Patel, seeking apology and unambiguous withdrawal of the derogatory statements. Another farmer Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu aka Mohinder Singh Sidhu from Sangrur, has also filed a defamation case against Ram Madhav for his statement that the farmer protests were being funded by Khalistanis,” mentioned Chadha.