Aditi tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 27
One day after the BJP’s oldest ally, Shiromani Akali Dal, resigned from the ruling alliance, Congress demanded that all NDA support teams come together to oppose the three farm-related bills that, they would be a death sentence for Indian farmers, he said.
Congress dispatched Haryana and Punjab organizing heads, Kumari Selja and Sunil Jakhar respectively, to urge all parties to join forces against the agricultural bills in the same way that the parties opposed the bills. of land acquisition that forced its withdrawal.
Kumari Selja, former Union minister and head of the Haryana Congress, today challenged JJP, the ruling ally of the BJP in Haryana, to break ranks and support farmers.
Selja and Jakhar also said that all parties offering support to the BJP must “open their eyes and join forces with the farmers.”
“Choudhary Devi Lal’s soul must be shrinking today from seeing JJP’s Dushyant Chautala supporting the BJP on black bills that will turn farmers into bonded laborers,” said Jakhar.
Jakhar also used the occasion to attack Akali Dal for “opportunism” saying that Akali Dal did not leave the NDA, but was forced to do so.
“The leaders of the PM and the BJP did not even once push Harsimrat Badal to return once she resigned from the Cabinet. Nobody gave the Akalis time to even get together and they had to leave the NDA, “said Sunil Jakhar.
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Jakhar also said that Akali Dal and JJP are agriculture-dominated parties and today they both dragged themselves in opposition to the agriculture-related ordinances that were eventually turned into bills.
Selja also said that both Devi Lal and Akali Dal’s patriarch Prakash Singh Badal were like confreres and, just as Akalis left the NDA, the JJP should also resign from the ruling BJP alliance in Haryana.
“The JJP must resign from the BJP government in Haryana because JJP always spoke for the farmers in the state,” Selja said.
The former Union minister previously said that the entire country was watching the way the government passed black laws.
“The BJP used the gross majority to strangle democracy and broke the backs of the farmers who are the backbone of the Indian food chain. Congress has regularly opposed these bills and we are fighting with farmers. The government wants to leave agricultural welfare to private actors. If the government leaves the farmers at the mercy of the companies, the sector will be emaciated. “
She criticized Akali Dal for “acting a drama by quitting the NDA.”
Selja called on all parties, including those that support BJP – YSRCP, TRS, JDU, LJP included – to join the farmers.
“Don’t close your ears to the voices of the farmers. They will be asked to respond to NDA allies and others who are their supporters in Bihar – JDU, LJP. Bihar elections are planned and farmers are already tall and dry due to the abolition of the APMC Law in Bihar in 2006. Farmers will be reduced to forced labor and slaves. The experiment has failed in Bihar. The country will not forgive these NDA allies if they do not oppose the BJP against farmers, ”said Selja asking the RLP in Rajasthan to reconsider as well.
She said in Haryana, JJP’s Dushyant Chautala should also open his eyes.
“Don’t delay your decision to leave the BJP in Haryana. How can you be quiet? The Haryana farmers are asking questions, ”Selja told Dushyant.
Jakhar called Farm Bills slow poison and said the real impact of a weakened MSP will come after states like Bihar, Punjab and Uttarakhand go to the polls.
“By the time the impact seeps through, it would have spread like slow poison and it would be too late to help. These bills should be called business welfare bills and not farm welfare bills, ”Jakhar said, adding that the bills end state regulation in the management of farm affairs and place farmers in at the mercy of companies.
Congress reiterated its demand for the withdrawal of the agrarian bills, urging President Ram Nath Kovind once again not to sign them.
