The AAP has offered authorized help to 5 “aggrieved farmers” to ship authorized notices for defamation to actress Kangana Ranaut, Union Minister Raosaheb Danve and BJP MPs Ravi Kishan, Manoj Tiwari and Ramesh Bidhuri.
However, a number of of those ‘farmers’ have turned out to be AAP staff. One such ‘farmer’ who has been helped to ship authorized discover, Narinder Singh Shergill, is an AAP member and has contested Assembly elections from Mohali and the parliamentary polls from Ropar constituency.
Another individual, who has despatched the authorized discover to Kangana Ranaut, is Jeevan Jyot Kaur who can also be related to the Mahila wing of AAP.
A 3rd ‘farmer’ claimed to have helped to ship a authorized discover is Gurinder Singh Birring who, too, has been related to AAP and was a part of its conflict room for 2017 Assembly polls.
A fourth ‘farmer’, Sukhwinder Paul Sukhi, who has despatched authorized discover to BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, can also be learnt to be related to AAP in Mansa.
So out of 5 so-called farmers whom the AAP claims to have helped ship authorized notices for defamation, 4 are actively related to the occasion.
AAP Punjab co-incharge Raghav Chadha, who introduced the despatch of authorized notices right here on Saturday, defended the names of occasion staff amongst those that have despatched authorized notices. “One or two of them may be associated with the party but they are farmers too,” he stated.
He stated that the farmers had been requesting the Narendra Modi-led Central authorities to hearken to them, however in flip have been solely abused. “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 to our heart’s content. If someone abuses an honest farmer, it is similar to abusing Mother India,” he added.
Chadha stated that the BJP leaders at completely different occasions described the farmers as terrorists, anti-nationals, goondas, dalaals, brokers 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,” he stated.
“It is evident that the entire BJP is categorically and strategically working to destroy and discredit the farmers’ movement with their relentless abuse,” he added. He stated that the false and frivolous propaganda in opposition to the farmers was unbecoming on the a part of these behind the propaganda. Chadha stated that the AAP vows to face with the farmers of this nation of their battle and can present them help until the BJP leaders are punished.
Chadha stated that over 20 BJP leaders, together with Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Giriraj Singh, MP Manoj Tiwari, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, BJP’s National General Secretary Ram Madhav and several other others, had allegedly used unparliamentary language and hurled filthy abuses on the farmers. He stated that after notices to some BJP leaders final month, recent notices have been issued to a Bollywood actress, BJP’s MPs and Union minister.
Chadha stated actress Kangana Ranaut was served a discover for her ‘derogatory’ remarks by Jeevan Jyot Kaur, “a farmer from Amritsar”. Kangana by her tweet had known as the aged mom of a farmer as a girl out there for Rs 100.
Similarly, on December 3, MP Manoj Tiwari had stated that ‘tukde-tukde’ gang was attempting to experiment with Shaheen Bagh 2.0 and ‘create unrest in the garb of farmers’ protest’. Taking objection to such accusations, ‘farmer’ Sukhwinder Paul Sukhi from Mansa district had filed a defamation case in opposition to Tiwari, in search of unconditional apology and unambiguous withdrawal of the derogatory statements, Chadha stated.
Another ‘farmer’ from Patiala, Gurinder Singh Birring, had issued a discover to MP Ravi Kishan for his assertion on December 17 that the farmers’ protests have been being funded by Pakistan, China and Canada, Chadha stated.