Farmers Protest: SAD backs farmers' rejection of Centre's proposal, describes proposals as delaying tactics
Farmers Protest: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia urged the Government of India to stop playing games with the innocent farmers of the country and unconditionally withdraw the farm laws 2020 and accept all the other demands of the farmers.
Shiromani Akali Dal leader said "it fully backs the farmers' rejection of the proposals sent by the Government of India, saying that these proposals were nothing but delaying and diversionary tactics and tricks which have rightly been rejected by the farmers. "We are with the farmers in everything and in every way," said Bikram Majithia.
He said that there was nothing new in these proposals. "These in fact are the same proposals which had been rejected by the SAD before quitting the government and the NDA to stand with our farmers," he added.
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"It is so tragic that the country's annadata, the farmers, are battling cruel and biting cold along with families ranging from barely 14-day old infants to elders in their late eighties and nineties," said the Akali leader.
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Asking the Government to "abandon its stubborn refusal to listen to the farmers and announce the unqualified and unconditional acceptance of their demands, Majithia said that "the govt said farm laws 2020 are meant for the farmers' welfare. If the farmers don't want these, it is absolutely unreasonable, wrong and undemocratic to thrust these upon them."
The senior Akali leader expressed grave concern over how "our country's soft and civilised image is taking a huge beating with the government's repressive handling of a peaceful stir. What an irony that people and institutions from all over the world, including the UN, have felt deeply touched and extended solidarity with our brave but beleaguered farmers while our own elected government continues to be utterly callous and insensitive to their sufferings.
Adding, he said that the "unspeakable miseries which the country's breadwinners (annadata) are braving presents a touching human spectacle that can move even the most heartless enemy."
-PTC News
