“This is a conspiracy by other countries,” Union Minister Raosaheb Danve said.
New Delhi:
Union Minister Raosaheb Danve’s comment that Pakistan and China were fueling protests by farmers across the country has sparked a furious backlash from a Delhi Sikh body calling his views “an insult” .
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) denounced the insinuation that farmers were being “anti-national” or “anarchists” by protesting.
“The farmers have been sitting peacefully and the government has failed to do justice … the farmers who fight and die for the nation, grow food and whose children are also martyred for the nation … don’t try to paint them anti-national” said DSGMC President S Manjinder Singh Sirsa in a video message posted Wednesday.
Calling such insinuations “shameful,” he said government ministers and spokesmen have been repeatedly making such accusations.
Thousands of farmers across the country, especially those in Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting in recent weeks against three central government farm laws passed in September, gaining the support of multiple political parties. Several rounds of talks with the central government have failed to break the deadlock with farmers seeking the complete repeal of all three ordinances.
Speaking about the protest at a function in the Jalna district of Maharashtra on Wednesday, Mr Danve said: “The unrest that is taking place is not that of farmers. China and Pakistan are behind this. Muslims in this country were incited first. he said (to them)? NRC is coming, CAA is coming and Muslims will have to leave this country in six months. Only one Muslim left? “
He went on to say that such efforts had not been successful and that farmers were now being told that they would face losses. “This is the conspiracy of other countries,” Danve said.
A few days ago, Haryana’s agriculture minister, JP Dalal, also alleged that the farmers’ protest was being driven by Pakistan and China.
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