Farmers Movement Archive

‘It’s beginning of BJP downfall’

KARNAL/PANIPAT: Leader of opposition in Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda has termed the municipal election results as the beginning of BJP downfall in the state. Hooda was in Panipat on Wednesday, where he met protesting farmers at toll plaza to express solidarity with them. Reacting over the municipal corporation results, Hooda said, “It’s the beginning of the BJP downfall in the state as people of Haryana handed out a decisive defeat to the alliance in the urban local bodies’ election. The BJP-JJP alliance has lost the two mayor seats (Ambala and Sonipat) out of a total of three in the state. Now, it (BJP) will have to face defeat in the entire state.” “The three farm laws are not only anti-farmer, but also affect labourers and other sections of society. The government should feel the pain of the farmers, who have been camping under the open sky in the bone-chilling nights and immediately withdraw the laws,” he added. The former CM Hooda claimed that Congress had been with the farmers since the beginning and continuously raising their voice as farmers’ demands are justified. He added that the Congress had already demanded an emergency session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha as some people are playing “double-role” while claiming themselves to be pro farmers. The no-confidence motion would make it clear that who stands with the farmers and who stands with the government.

The Times of India

2020-12-31

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