Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday appealed to all political parties to come on one platform to fight unitedly against the Agriculture Bills.
Asserting his commitment to protect the rights of the farmers at all costs, the Chief Minister said he was ready to lead the political fight against these Bills with all his might.
“I will do what it takes to save my farmers and my state from these dangerous new laws, whose implementation will cripple the farming sector and also destroy Punjab’s lifeline of Agriculture,” he added.
The Chief Minister said that the Congress had always stood with the farmers and will fight with them, shoulder to shoulder, to scuttle the Centre’s plans to ruin not just their own families and the labourers, who toil on the fields day and night to feed the nation, but the entire state of Punjab.
The BJP led Union Government has stooped to a new low by bringing these Bills, and that too in an undemocratic and unparliamentary manner, said Captain Amarinder, adding that his government, supported by the Punjab Congress, will oppose the legislation tooth and nail in the interest of not just the farmers and the state but the entire country.
He said that Akalis are trying to change the narrative through their concerted and deliberate efforts to transform the `Punjab V/s Centre’ fight into a local political clash for their vested interests.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal’s assertion that Akalis will not let any corporate enter Punjab if the people make an Akali Dal government in the state clearly showed that it was all about power, and the entire drama was being enacted by their party to get into the saddle, said the Chief Minister.