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CHANDIGARH, October 4- Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder today questioned the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s silence over the 15 day long protest by farmers in Bathinda which is gradually spilling over to other parts of the state.
“I am surprised as what stops Mr Badal from talking to farmers directly”, he said in a statement released here today, while apprehending use of brute force against the protesting farmers, like this government has been using against other protestors like unemployed youth seeking jobs, which he warned will only add fuel to the fire that will be difficult to control.
Asserting that the farmers’ discontent was neither spontaneous nor without justified reasons, Capt Amarinder said, it had been brewing up for a long time and only the government was not taking note of it. “I have been warning over a period of time not to take farmers’ discontent lightly and I am warning you again before it is too late”, he warned, saying such situations and circumstances can provide fertile and conducive ground for disruptive forces to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the state.
“Either Mr Badal is blissfully ignorant about the intensity of anger prevailing among the farming community which has all the potential and likelihood to spill over and spread across the state like a wild fire or he has already given up hoping against hope for some miracle to happen and calm down protesting farmers”, he observed, while warning the state government against ignoring and taking the farmers’ protests so casually.
The former Chief Minister pointed out, whether it was unusual and unprecedented delay in lifting of wheat, or the denial of payment to sugarcane growers or the falling prices of basmati and now damage to the cotton crop which is primarily due to the negligence of the government by supplying spurious pesticides, this government has consistently and continuously failed the farmers in all respects.
Lashing out at Mr Badal for blaming the Congress for farmers’ problems, Capt Amarinder reminded him that for about nine years now it was his (Mr Badal’s) government in Punjab. “That is why I have been saying that Badal has lost his mind and grown too old to govern and remember since when he has been at the helm of affairs in the state and he can no longer blame others for his own failures”, he remarked.
