Sukhbir Badal asks SAD Delhi and DSGMC to extend help to farmer bodies

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said that SAD Delhi unit as well as the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) would support the “Delhi Chalo” call of farmer organisations for 26-27 November and extend all possible help to them.

The SAD chief spoke to party’s Delhi president Harmeet Singh Kalka and DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa in this connection. Sukhbir said that both the SAD Delhi unit and DSGMC would make arrangements for ‘langar’ for farmers who would gather in Delhi on 26-27 November, besides providing other essential items to them.

He asked both Kalka and Sirsa to coordinate with the farmer organisations in this regard. He said the SAD was ready to extend more specific help to the farmer organisations as per their desire. “The SAD has a glorious heritage of participating in movements of farmers as well as the poor and under privileged sections of society. We will continue to do so and fulfil any duty assigned to us,” Sukhbir added.

Badal also simultaneously requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the grievances of the farmers at the earliest. He said that the Centre should scrap the three central legislations on agricultural marketing which had been rejected by the farming community. He said that simultaneously the government should bring in legislation to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) and ensure assured government purchase on MSP.

Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic) MLA and former Punjab finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa on Monday appealed the party workers to join the farmers’ stir in New Delhi on 26-27 November, against the new central agricultural laws.

Dhindsa said that the SAD (Democratic) stands shoulder to shoulder with the farmers in every struggle and assist their agitation till the agricultural laws were repealed.