Sukhbir: BJP trying to divide Punjab, Haryana farmers on SYL

Chamkaur Sahib, December 21

While no political conferences were held at the three-day Shaheedi Jor Mela this year due to Covid, prominent personalities, including SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, ex-MP Prem Singh Chandumajra, ex-Cabinet minister Daljit Singh Cheema and SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur, paid obeisance at Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib here today.

Talking to the media, Sukhbir said the BJP was raising the SYL issue now to create division among farmers of Punjab and Haryana, who were agitating in Delhi. He said farmers, especially from Haryana, were aware of the BJP tactics and had completely ignored it.

Sukhbir alleged that instead of solving the farmers’ issues, the NDA government was adopting coercive methods to suppress the stir. The IT raids on arhtiyas was also to suppress the stir. “I have warned the Centre that the more it tries to suppress the ongoing stir, more it will be strengthened,” he added.

Replying to a query over new invitation of talks, he said, “The Centre is trying to tire out farmers by starting a dialogue again. This is a futile exercise when the farmer bodies have already rejected the laws.The PM should call an emergency Parliament session and repeal the laws.” — TNS