Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticised Haryana Agriculture Minister JP Dalal and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar fo...
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticised Haryana Agriculture Minister JP Dalal and Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar for their statements on the farmers who died during the protests near Delhi, PTI reported. Singh said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had lost its moral ground to rule.
On Saturday, the Haryana agriculture minister had said that the farmers would have died even if they were back home. Tomar, on the other hand, told the Parliament earlier this month that the Centre won’t provide compensation to the families of the farmers who died during the protest. He also said the government has no data about the deaths of farmers.
Singh said that these statements reflected the BJP’s “shocking” lack of concern for the farmers who carried on their around-the-clock sit-ins despite cold weather and police violence while fighting for their livelihood. “The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre should step down in the interest of the nation, as should the ML Khattar government in Haryana,” Singh said, according to PTI.
The Punjab chief minister lashed out at the Centre for denying financial aid to the farmers’ families. “It was deplorable that a government that can spend Rs 8 crore on the publicity campaign for the...
