CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday took offence to Union minister Rao Saheb Danve’s statement regarding farmers’ agitation. The party’s Punjab president and Sangrur MP, Bhawant Mann, said that the BJP had stooped to a new low.
The AAP leader said that the Modi dispensation should tell its ministers that behind the ongoing massive kisan movement, there were hands from China and Pakistan but the mothers, fathers, sisters and other kin of the Indian soldiers. He added that the PM should tell his ministers to maintain decency of language.
Mann said that the Modi government should never forget that it is the brave sons of the agitating farmers who are guarding the country’s frontiers against China and Pakistan. He said that the Union government was indulging in a campaign against the farmers and maligning both the farmers and jawans of the country.
The Sangrur MP further said that the Central government should understand that it would never succeed in weakening the farmers’ struggle which had emerged as a movement of the people of the country. Mann said that behind this peasant movement were the people of the country from all sections of society, including traders, students, men, women and others who stood rock solid behind the ongoing struggle being fought on the Delhi-Haryana borders amid cold and chilling winter nights.
The AAP leader added that with the movement growing stronger by the day, the Modi government is getting panicky.