Summary:
Chandigarh, Sep 14 (PTI) Facing farmer bodies’ flak for asking them to spare Punjab from their protest against the farm laws and hold it at Delhi borders and in Haryana, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday accused farmers’ bodies of giving a “political twist” to his plea.
Terming the farmers’ fronts criticism as “unfortunate” and “uncalled for”, Singh asserted that their continued stir has caused pain and misery to the people.
Expressing concern that continued farmers’ protests will push industry out of the state, adversely affecting its economy, he said it was not “the Adanis or the Ambanis whose interests were being hurt by farmers protests”.
What is being hurt is “the common people of the state and its economy”, he asserted.
Several leaders of Samyukt Kisan Morcha have flayed the Punjab CM’s appeal to farmers to spare Punjab from their protests.
Yogender Yadav of Jai Kisan Andolan called the CM’s statement “very unfortunate and irresponsible,” dubbing it as an attempt to divide the farmers of Punjab and Haryana.