Chandigarh, Oct 22 (UNI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab President and MP Bhagwant Mann has accused Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of playing with the sentiments of farmers and farm labourers by pedalling lies about the deadly agriculture Bills brought in to negate the central farm laws.
Bhagwant Mann questioned the Chief Minister, saying “Were the Bills passed in the specially-convened Punjab Assembly session valid, the Amarinder Singh government would not have run away from including procurement of cotton crop and other crops at MSP in the Bills brought in”.
In a statement issued from party headquarters on Thursday, Bhagwant Mann said on the one hand CM Amarinder Singh was playing hide and seek with the gullible farmers in collusion with PM Narendra Modi by bringing in Bills in the Punjab Assembly to negate the laws passed by Parliament, a well thought-out ploy to torpedo the peasant struggle. He lamented that the MSP fixed by the government of for cotton and maize were completely flouted in Punjab ‘mandis’, Punjab, forcing farmers to sell their produce at Rs.1000 per quintal less as against Rs.5745 and Rs.1870 per quintal for cotton and maize, respectively.