Both BJP and AAP drunk on arrogance of power; betrayed farmers, says Kharge on eviction of farmers from protest sites

By Jagadananda Pradhan
(Fast Mail):-- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are criminals against farmers and have betrayed the nation's food providers, in response to Punjab Police evicting protesting farmers from sit-in sites.

On Wednesday, Punjab Police evicted farmers who had been camping for over a year at the Shambhu and Khanauri border sit-in sites. Earlier, the police had detained several farmer leaders, including Sarvan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal, in Mohali as they were returning from a meeting with a central delegation.

Kharge posted on 'X,' "It seems that two farmers-opposing parties have now colluded against the nation's food providers. First, the Punjab government called the farmers for talks, and then forcibly removed them from the sit-in sites."

He stated that the forcible detention of senior farmer leaders Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarvan Singh Pandher by the Punjab Police deserves the strongest condemnation.

The Congress President alleged, "Drunk on the arrogance of power, both BJP and AAP have been criminals against farmers."

He remarked, "The country has not forgotten the BJP rule in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh... when bullets were fired on farmers, how a Modi government minister's son crushed farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, and how a farmer from Rajasthan hanged himself at Kejriwal’s rally in 2015 while he callously watched the spectacle."

Kharge said, "Whether it’s Modi ji’s promise of MSP to farmers or AAP’s swift implementation of the three black laws in Delhi... both these parties have betrayed our nation’s food providers."

He added that the country’s 62 crore farmers will never forgive these anti-farmer parties.

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