Farmers raise slogans against PM Modi and Badal in Punjab
In a major embarrassment to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, hundreds of agitating farmers on Thursday showed black flags to him and interrupted his Janta Darbar at Bharowal village.
Badal was left red faced when more than 100 farmers under the banner of Kissan Sangharsh Committee entered the venue and shouted slogans against him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Agitating farmers criticised Badal for not addressing their issues and having failed to check instances of sacrilege. The police whisked the farmers away after the chief minister left the venue.
Senior Congress leaders today asked the Akalis to seek Chief Minister Badal’s resignation before raising a finger against Capt Amarinder, suggesting a poll to check how people of Punjab felt.
“Let us go for a public referendum and see who do people of Punjab consider to be the most corrupt, Capt Amarinder or the Badals,” they challenged the Akali leaders, while pointing out how Badal from being an ordinary farmer had accumulated wealth worth billions of rupees which was totally unaccounted and disproportionate to his income.
In a joint statement senior party leaders and legislators Sukhjinder Randhawa, Rana Gurjeet Singh, Kewal Singh Dhillon, Rana KP Singh and Sukh Sarkaria while reacting to the Akali statement said that it had already been disposed off by the Punjab and Haryana High Court long before and the Akali government had not the guts to challenge it in the Supreme Court.
“If your government was so confident about the case why it did not challenge the HC verdict in the Supreme Court,” they asked.
The Congress leaders said, “Akalis were feeling frustrated over their declining popularity graph against the rising mass support for Congress and Capt Amarinder. Instead of asking Capt Amarinder to quit, they should better advise their leader Parkash Singh Badal to retire, as that would be in the interest of Punjab.”
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