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Chandigarh/New Delhi, The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today blasted the Union Food processing Minister Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal for not taking any interest in the misery of the beleaguered farmers and on the contrary trying counter the pro-farmer voice vociferously being raised by Mr Rahul Gandhi.
He said that when the farmers were suffering from the hailstorm and rains, Modi was conveniently taking foreign jaunts and his Government was sleeping.
Harsimrat Badal had made a mockery of the misery of the farmers of Punjab by taking a imprudent stand in the Parliament, he said. Instead of waking up the Modi and Badal Government from the deep slumber, she was trying to gain political brownie points. Being food processing minister, what had she done for Punjab’s agri sector so far, he questioned.
Further lambasting the Union Minister, he said that Wheat, Potato, Sugarcane, Milk, Agro forestry all are in a mess and she is taking a pathetic and shameful stand in the Parliament and giving wrong data on wheat procurement on the floor of the house.
He asserted that Mr Gandhi’s visit to the mandis in Punjab had shaken the governments at the centre and in Punjab. However, the Punjab government was still to wake up from the deep slumber despite having received such a jolt.
He said the farmers in what used to be one of the most advanced states had been committing suicides and the agrarian crisis had been deepening. Harassed in the mandis, the farmers were on the agitational path. It was strange that rather than taking up the concerns of the people from her state, she was raking up the issues which had nothing to do with ending the misery of the farmers.
He asked her in case Mr Gandhi was on vacation when natural calamity struck the farmers, what had she and her government had done for them. He ridiculed her for her party shifting the stand overnight on the land legislation and said she was still to logically explain this shocking change within 24 hours.
