Farmers Movement Archive

Unions see ‘Khattar in Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh’, ‘arrogance’ in Navjot Singh Sidhu

BATHINDA: Reacting to former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar’s Friday statement that farmers have chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to thank for letting them move to Delhi, the farmers said they would have dealt with Amarinder like they dealt with the road blockades of the Haryana CM, and Captain had done them "no favour to boast". They said they were watching the MPs who had skipped Parliament despite the "voters’ whip" to attend the swearing-in of Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu. Kirti Kisan Union president Nirbhai Singh Dhudike accused the Congress of taking the farmers lightly, while KKU vice-president Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala threatened to give the Congress "the treatment being given to the BJP MPs and MLAs", whose convoys, houses, and events are under attack. Gathered at Chamkaur Sahib on Saturday, the farmers also opposed Sidhu, whom the Aam Aadmi Party also asked to apologise for using "arrogant words to call farmers". Apparently, he said while assuming office that "the thirsty must walk to the well". AAP’s Punjab Kisan wing chief and MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan said: "His words for the helpless farmers were a pity. When the country was short of food, former PMs Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri walked to farmers of Punjab."

The Times of India

2021-07-25

Amritsar