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CWC meet had no answer to internal rift: BJP

Tribune News ServiceNew Delhi, October 16The BJP today mocked the Congress Working Committee meeting as “parivar bachao working committee”, claiming that it offered no answers to the party’s “internal rift and leadership failures”.BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia also criticised the CWC for not reacting to the gruesome “murder of a Dalit man at the Singhu border”.Killing at protest site unfortunate: Tikait BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has called the Singhu incident “unfortunate”. He termed it a conspiracy against the farmers’ agitation. Tikait said it would not affect farmers’ protest.BJP’s IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya said, “Twentyfour hours after the murder of Lakhbir Singh, Rahul Gandhi hasn’t said a word. “Neither has Punjab CM announced any compensation for the family, which hails from Punjab.”Citing police lathicharge on a group of protesting farmers in Congress-ruled states of Punjab and Rajasthan and a law on contract farming brought in by Punjab that says “farmers can be arrested for breaking the agreement”. He said, “This is what a black law is and the Congress president should ensure that it is withdrawn.”He also took a dig at Sonia for the part of her statement in which she says all CWC were now fully vaccinated, paving the way for its first physical meeting since the Covid-19 outbreak, reminding of the Congress criticism of the government’s vaccination policies.

The Tribune

2021-10-17