The Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the BJP-led Haryana government for creating a war-like situation at the Shambhu Border and using tear gas shells to stop the farmers from protesting in Delhi.
“The Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has made it an Indo-Pak border. In their attempt to stop farmers from going to Delhi, the Haryana police have been committing cruelty on innocent farmers. The tear gas shells are being used to stop the farmers. Haryana police have detained the protestors. How can he stop the fellow citizens from exercising their democratic right?”, Bajwa added.
Senior Congress Leader, Bajwa said that the Haryana government knows that the farmers are not going to stay in Haryana as they are scheduled to stage a protest in Delhi only against the Centre government. The Haryana government should not create hurdles for the farmers and let them pass on to Delhi.
“The farmers are struggling for the farmers from across the country. Haryana CM should not forget that it has an agriculture-based economy like Punjab. If the Minimum Support price (MSP) on all crops gets legalised, the farming community of Haryana will benefit too. By suppressing the farmers’ protest 2.0, the Haryana CM demonstrated his anti-farmer face”, Bajwa added.
The opposition leader said that the BJP-led centre government didn’t only renege from its promise to legalise the MSP but the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had also failed in his commitment to double the farmers’ income by 2022.