Chandigarh, Oct 9 (UNI) Challenging Sukhbir Badal’s moral right to question him or his government on the Farm Laws, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday asked the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president to first answer three key questions on the issue, even as he lashed out at the latter for trying to hijack the farmers’ agitation to push his own party’s agenda.
The Chief Minister said that Sukhbir should refrain from commenting on the black farm laws till he gives satisfactory answers to three vital questions, the answers to which every single farmer of Punjab wanted to know.
“Why did Harsimrat Kaur Badal not oppose the Farm Ordinances when they were first approved by the Union Cabinet, of which she was then a member? Why did Sukhbir not support the state government at the all-party meeting he (Captain Amarinder) had convened to evolve a consensus against the blatantly anti-farmer legislations? Why did the Akalis boycott the Vidhan Sabha session in which the other parties (barring BJP) had voted in favour of the resolution on the agricultural laws?”