Farmers Movement Archive

Kejri’s ‘nautanki’ won’t help cover up AAP’s U-turn on farm laws: Singla

CHANDIGARH: Punjab cabinet minister Vijay Inder Singla on Thursday mocked Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s latest “nautanki” (melodrama) in the Delhi assembly as yet another “desperate attempt” to cover up his party’s shocking U-turn on the farm laws and his government’s abject failure to protect the interests of farmers. Reacting to Kejriwal’s “theatrics” in the House, where the AAP leader dramatically tore off copies of the central farm laws, Singla said “these theatrics will not help stop the implementation of one of the legislations” which the AAP government in the national capital had notified less than a month ago. “Kejriwal’s pathetic attempt to play to public sentiments had only exposed him further as a first-class fraud, who had no qualms about pretending to be concerned about the plight of farmers,” said Singla. “Even as his party was purportedly extending support to farmers preparing to march to Delhi to fight for their livelihood, Kejriwal’s government in Delhi was busy preparing the notification for implementing one of the very laws which they (farmers) were fighting against,” he said. “It might have taken Kejriwal six months to do a flip-flop on the issue, but he has made it amply clear that AAP’s moral ethics are no better than the SAD, which made a U-turn on the farmers within three months,” said Singla.

The Times of India

2020-12-18

Chandigarh