Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh reprimanded the BJP and said that the party should stop tarnishing their image for the fight of farmers and discredit their fight for justice by calling them urban naxalites. The Chief Minister said, “If the BJP cannot differentiate between distressed citizens and terrorists, militants and goons fighting for their survival, it should stop pretending to be a party of the common people.”
He said that a party which, on exercising its democratic right to oppose citizens, termed them as Naxalites and terrorists, has lost all rights to rule over the citizens.
BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh had termed the farmers of Punjab as urban Naxalites, to which Singh said that with this statement, the BJP leader has shown his frustration to promote his political agenda.
He said that such protests by angry farmers are taking place not only in Punjab, but also in BJP ruled states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Amarinder said, “Do the farmers protesting in all these places look like Naxalites? And does this mean that law and order has collapsed everywhere?”
The Chief Minister said that various farmer leaders had themselves appealed to the agitators not to cut electricity from the mobile towers, the Chief Minister said that in some places it is clearly seen that the farmers are taking these steps in anger, who are further The future looks bleak.
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