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Captain Amarinder Singh lashes out at Kejriwal for low-level politics on farmers' issue

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Captain Amarinder Singh lashes out at Kejriwal for low-level politics on farmers' issue
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Farmers Protest against farm laws 2020: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday lashed out at Arvind Kejriwal for stooping to a shamelessly low level of politics and indulging in brazen double-speak in a desperate bid to wriggle out of his own failure to protect the interests of the farming community. Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader for undermining the farmers’ fight by notifying one of the farm laws 2020 in Delhi, Captain Amarinder Singh asked Kejriwal “why did you not stand against the Centre by passing your own state legislations as we did in Punjab?”
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Also Read | Punjab singer Jass Bajwa is now married Farmers Protest against farm laws 2020: Captain Amarinder Singh lashed out at Arvind Kejriwal for stooping to low level of politics. The Chief Minister also trashed Kejriwal’s assertion that states were helpless against the central farm laws 2020, and said it was clear that the AAP leader did not even want to try to fight the draconian legislations. Farmers Protest against farm laws 2020: Captain Amarinder Singh lashed out at Arvind Kejriwal for stooping to low level of politics. “Why else did he not bring any legislations in the state assembly to at least try and negate some of the ill-effects of the central laws?” asked Captain Amarinder.
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Also Read | ‘Tractor to Twitter’: Farmers protest gets online push from Punjabis Instead of meekly just notifying the central laws, Arvind Kejriwal could have tried to make some effort to counter them and protect the rights of the farmers, said Captain Amarinder, adding that it was evident that “this sneaky little fellow, whose double standards have been exposed time and again, is now completely cornered on the issue. Farmers Protest against farm laws 2020: Captain Amarinder Singh lashed out at Arvind Kejriwal for stooping to low level of politics. As for the legality of the Punjab state amendment Bills, the Chief Minister pointed out that these were valid under the Constitution and had a strong precedent in the Bills that were passed by the Gujarat government in 2015 under Article 254 (II) of the Constitution to oppose the Centre’s land acquisition laws. In fact, the then President Dr. Pranab Mukherjee had cleared those Gujarat Bills, he added. Bathinda triple murder case: In a shocking incident, three family members were reportedly killed at Kamla Nehru Colony in Bathinda. Reacting to Kejriwal’s comment on the Centre being angry with him because his government did not allow Delhi’s stadiums to be used as jails for farmers, Captain Amarinder said it was quite apparent that the AAP leader, whose survival depended on the central government, was more worried about angering the latter than about the plight of the farmers. -PTC News-
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