Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday took on the BJP, saying the state would prove to be the party’s “nemesis” and farm laws its “death-knell”.
The BJP should start preparing itself for political oblivion, said the Chief Minister, adding that the party’s fate is now sealed, not just in Punjab but also at the Centre, where its “despotic rule” is all set to end. “The farm laws will spell the death-knell for this repressive, despotic and autocratic party. For nearly 7 years they have trampled over human rights, as well as the dignity and aspirations of Indians in every possible way, and now it is the people’s turn,” said Captain Amarinder.
If the so-called urban party could not find candidates to field in more than half of the state’s civic body seats, one can only imagine what they will face in rural Punjab if they ever decide to contest there, said the Chief Minister. “What you see on the roads, and which you allege to be the Congress handiwork, is the spontaneous anger triggered among farmers by your arrogant anti-farmer attitude,” he said, rejecting as ‘hilarious’ Punjab BJP’s claims that the protestors it is facing on its campaign trail for the upcoming municipal polls are not farmers but Congress workers.
“Did you really think you could get away with abusing the farmers, and violating their democratic and Constitutional rights, as you have been doing for the past so many months, without any consequences,” the CM asked the BJP’s Punjab leadership. It was unfortunate that even now, the power-drunk BJP was refusing to look the truth in the eye, and was taking refuge in nonsensical excuses to hide its own shocking failure to address the concerns of the farmers, he added. No political leadership anywhere in the world has ever survived for long by ignoring the interests of its own citizens, and the BJP scripted its own destiny in the shape of those “draconian” farm laws, he added.
“You (BJP), along with your allies and ex-allies like the Akalis, conspired to snatch the last morsel of food from those very farmers who keep you well-fed and satiated. And now you want these farmers to welcome you with garlands of flowers?’” quipped Captain Amarinder.