boxSAD launches campaign to get back in farmers’ good graces
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boxSAD launches campaign to get back in farmers’ good graces
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Bathinda: After cutting off ties with BJP over agri bills, SAD has coined new slogans on farmers and Punjabiyat, besides publishing a pamphlet. The party is trying to project its “sacrifice” by resigning from the Union Cabinet and breaking the alliance with BJP for the sake of farmers. It party has come up with the slogan, “Kisan sadda maan, kisan saddi shaan” (farmer is our pride and farmer is our dignity), “Ikko naara, kisan pyara” (only one slogan, the farmer is dear). The pamphlet, which sports a picture of Sukhbir Singh Badal, says, Punjab Punjabiat ate kisana lei vajirian te gathjod kurban (sacrifice of ministries and alliance are for Punjab, Punjabiyat and farmers). The party plans to take these slogans to people in villages and run a campaign on social media. “The SAD always stands for welfare of farmers. Most welfare measures for farmers, including the ambitious free electricity scheme, were started during the SAD government. Now, when BJP tried to crush farmers by getting three agri bills passed in both houses of Parliament, even using undemocratic means for the purpose, we decided to withdraw our representative from the Union cabinet and Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned,” said SAD farmer wing head and former minister Sikandar Singh Maluka.
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The Times of India
Date
2020-09-28
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Chandigarh