Chandigarh:
Reacting strongly to governor VP Singh Badnore’s summons to Punjab’s best officials more than vandalism of mobile towers final month, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday accused the BJP of dragging the constitutional workplace into its “unsavoury agenda”. Amarinder Singh stated the governor has “bowed down” to the party’s propaganda on the state’s law and order. “Summon me, not my officers if you want any clarification,” the Chief Minister stated in a statement.
Captain Singh, who appears soon after the state’s residence portfolio, stated that the BJP, by raising concerns on the state’s law and order, is attempting to deflect interest from the protests against the 3 contentious agriculture laws.
“While the propaganda of the BJP on collapse of law and order in the state was nothing more than a tactic to divert attention from the farm laws issue and the resultant farmers’ agitation, if the governor nevertheless had any concerns on the situation, he should have taken up the matter directly with me as custodian of the Home Portfolio,” a Punjab government statement quoted him as saying.
“At a time when the very existence of our farmers is at stake, the BJP leaders are busy indulging in petty politics and also dragging the Constitutional office of the Governor into their unsavoury agenda,” he added.
Hundreds of mobile towers in Punjab, mainly belonging to Reliance Jio, had been place out of action final month, allegedly by farmers protesting the centre’s agriculture laws. Captain Singh had issued a stern warning relating to more than the incident and had asked the police to take action against these accountable.
Captain Singh today stated that the BJP is attempting to undermine the peaceful agitation against the laws by terming a “few minor incidents of damage to some mobile towers as a law-and-order problem”.
“These damaged towers can be and are being repaired, but what about the lives of the farmers lost in the bitter cold at Delhi borders, where they continue to fight for their rights amid total apathy from the BJP-led government at the centre?” he asked.
Farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting the laws for weeks in and about the national capital. They worry that the laws will phase out the conventional crop markets and the minimum help price tag assure and make them susceptible to exploitation by significant corporate homes.
The protesting farmers have targetted some Punjab BJP leaders in the final handful of weeks to press for their demand of a repeal of the laws.
On Friday, a tractor trolley carrying cow dung was unloaded in front of the property of a BJP leader in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur.
Last month, a group of BJP leaders in Punjab’s Phagwara had to slip out from the backdoor beneath police protection soon after the protesting farmers picketed a hotel that they had been holding an occasion in.