Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has always supported farmers when he reiterated support for his call for Bharat Bandh or a national strike on Tuesday. Kejriwal made the remarks at the Singhu border in the capital, where he has gone to extend support and verify arrangements for farmers who have been protesting for the past 12 days against three farm laws enacted by the central government in September.
“We support all the demands of the farmers. Your problems and demands are valid. My party and I have been with them from the beginning. At the beginning of their protests, the Delhi police had requested permission to convert nine stadiums into prisons. I was pressurized but I did not allow it ”, he was quoted by the ANI news agency.
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He was referring to the fact that the Delhi government denied police permission to convert nine stadiums in the city into temporary detention centers in light of the farmers’ unrest on November 27, a day after the Delhi march began. ‘Dilli Chalo’. “The demands of the farmers are valid. The central government must accept their demands immediately. Stopping farmers is not the solution. Peaceful protest is the constitutional right of every Indian. They cannot be jailed for that. This is why the Delhi government is rejecting the permission requested by the Delhi police to convert stadiums into prisons, ”Delhi Interior Minister Satyendar Jain said then in a letter to Delhi police.
At the protest site, Kejriwal said AAP members have been serving farmers as “sevadars” since the protests began. “I have not come here as CM but as ‘sevadar’. Farmers are in trouble today and we must support them. The AAP supports Bharat Bandh on December 8 and party workers will participate in it across the country, ”he said.
Several other political parties, including the Congress party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the left-wing parties, Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), have also decided to stand in solidarity with the protesting farmers in support of the general strike. on Tuesday.
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