Farm Bills / I stand in solidarity with farmers says, Capt Amarinder Singh

AnandpurSahib Punjab leader minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday pledged his persevered assist to farmers agitating towards the 3 Central farm legal guidelines, including that the Centre had grown to become the problem into one which impinged on its prestige.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 20, 2021, 08:07 PM

AnandpurSahib Punjab leader minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday pledged his persevered assist to farmers agitating towards the 3 Central farm legal guidelines, including that the Centre had grown to become the problem into one which impinged on its prestige.


“My heart is with the farmers protesting at the borders of Delhi. The Centre had requested me to forestall those farmers in Punjab and not permit them to return to Delhi, however, I refused to do this,” he said, after launching a ₹520-crore debt alleviation scheme for 2.85 lakh farm labourers and landless farmers withinside the country. He devoted the scheme to the country at the 77th start anniversary of his friend, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.


“Like each Indian, farmers additionally have the proper to democratic protest withinside the national capital. These small farmers aren't preventing for themselves, however for his or her coming generations,” he said, thinking the Centre on its failure to peer the ache of protesting farmers.


“We have amended the Constitution 127 times, so why are we now no longer doing it? Why is the Centre turning the farm legal guidelines into a problem regarding its prestige,” he questioned, including that he had categorically advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to repeal the legal guidelines.


He brought that the Centre want to guard the Minimum Support System (MSP) and the marketplace gadget in addition to the conventional courting among the farmers and the artisans withinside the country’s interest.