Former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday asked Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to tell Punjabis how much longer he would wait before exercising legal options to ensure the three agricultural Bills, passed unanimously in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha eighty days back to counter the effects of the Central farm laws, were forwarded to the President for assent by the state Governor.
“Going by the current scenario you seem to have even forgotten you initiated the move to get the three Bills passed in the State assembly in the same manner in which a resolution rejecting the erstwhile Farm Ordinances was also passed but never forwarded to the centre,” Harsimrat Badal said to the chief minister in a statement here.
She said the go slow policy adopted by the chief minister on pursuing the three Bills whose implementation would put Punjab out of the purview of the central Agricultural laws clearly indicated that he was purposely delaying action on the issue. “The recent manner in which you have bent over backwards to please the central government and even registered cases against Punjabis speaking out against Punjab BJP leaders gives credence to reports that you are being remote controlled by the union home ministry for reasons best known to you.”
Badal said “you should spell out what legal options you have taken since the last eighty days to ensure justice is done to the farmers of Punjab in the case. If you have done nothing, which is the case, you should explain why you have failed the farmers of Punjab yet again.”