Farmers’ protest: Center can solve this situation “in a minute”, says Raghav Chadha
New Delhi:
Shortly after the BJP accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party of Delhi of politicizing the farmers’ protest to fabricate political goodwill, Raghav Chadha of the AAP responded by stating that “if you support farmers in this time of crisis … to to demand the repeal of three black laws … is political, we are guilty ”.
Chadha then launched a counterattack, targeting brutal attacks on farmers by the police in Haryana and Delhi, ruled by the BJP (where the police report to the Union Ministry of the Interior) and reminding the center that it could resolve the protest. “in a minute” offering “unconditional” talks from farmers.
“If supporting farmers right now is politics, we are guilty of doing it. If demanding the repeal of three black laws is political, then we are guilty. Our heart beats for farmers. We stand with them … this is led by the farmers. farmers and we are only here to support, “Chadha told NDTV.
“This matter can be resolved in a minute by the center. All they have to do is pick up the phone and offer unconditional dialogue. Unfortunately, they have turned this into an ego battle and are having secret meetings but not talking to the farmers. This shows the Modi government’s apathy towards farmers, “he added.
Chadha was referring to the multiple high-level meetings between Interior Minister Amit Shah and his cabinet colleagues over the past 24 hours as irate farmers threaten to blockade the outskirts of Delhi.
The AAP MLA said its party had made arrangements to ensure that “our revolutionary brothers and sisters” had basic facilities – food, water and sanitation, and medical care – available as they protested the central government’s controversial agricultural laws.
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“We are making sure that the facilities are available to our revolutionary brothers. They have faced tear gas, water cannons and stones thrown at them. We have installed portable toilets and organized drinking water and langar (community kitchen) 24 hours, the 7 days a week at the GTB memorial, “he said.
Earlier today, Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s IT cell, accused the Delhi government of first notifying the farm laws and then reversing the farm laws to “burn Delhi” as “Khalistanis and Maoists” (a reference controversial to farmers). opposed them.
“It was never about farmers. Just about politics …” Malviya tweeted.
Thousands of outraged farmers began marching into the national capital last week, with trailers full of food, fuel and essential supplies, to demand the immediate repeal of the new farm laws.
On Friday, after braving charges of lathi, tear gas and water cannons, and overcoming barbed wire barricades and excavating roads, they reached the borders of Delhi, where they have been camped ever since.
They have rejected the center’s offer to engage in early talks, conditional on moving to a safe protest site, citing concerns about being trapped in an open-air jail. This was after the Delhi Police requested permission from the AAP government to convert stadiums into prisons; the AAP said “no.”
Farmers are protesting new laws that the center says will reform the sector by cutting out middlemen and improving farmers’ profits by allowing them to sell products anywhere in the country.
Critics argue that the laws will deprive farmers of a guaranteed minimum price for their products and leave them at the mercy of companies.
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