Navjot Sidhu-led Cong delegation to meet farm unions today

Chandigarh, September 9

Keeping his promise to meet farmers protesting against the central agricultural laws, Pradesh Congress Commitee (PCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu will lead a three-member delegation of the pary to meet representatives of farmer unions at an all-party meeting called by them here tomorrow.

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Fatehgarh Sahib MLA and PCC working president Kuljit Nagra and party general secretary (organisation) Pargat Singh will accompany the PCC chief. The decision to take three-member delegation was taken after hectic parleys among party leaders at Punjab Congress Bhawan here.

Party leaders said they would listen to the representatives of farmer unions before deciding the party’s line of action. Farmers leaders are in no mood to let parties do campaigning in villages across the state, saying campaigning now, months before the elections, only serves to divert public attention away from their movement against the agricultural laws. Barring the BJP, representatives of all other political parties have been invited to the meeting.

Stressing the Congress had been opposing the farm laws from day one and supporting the farmers’ agitation at Delhi borders, the party leaders are likely to convince farmers to allow the them to campaign for the upcoming polls in the rural areas. “ To counter the BJP, it is important to allow other political parties to negate the laws through the electoral process,” said a party leader. — TNS

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