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Chandigarh, October 24
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh called SAD Chief Sukhbir Singh Badal’s recent allegation of his government colluding with the Centre over farmer protests “ludicrous, strange and senseless”.
A press note issued on Saturday from the chief minister’s office said he dismissed Badal’s suggestion that his government had colluded with the central government to end a farmers’ ‘Rail Roko’ blockade of the state’s railway tracks as the rival party’s desperate attempt to get out of the corner they had found themselves in over the farm Bills.
The statement quoted Amarinder Singh as also having dismissed Badal’s suggestion that the chief minister should have consulted his party before bringing amendments to the Centre’s controversial laws.
“The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief seemed to have been jolted into desperation by the entire Farm Laws saga, which had completely exposed the double standards of the Akalis,” the press note quoted the chief minister as having said. “Does Sukhbir really believe that I would lead my party to political suicide with such an act?”
“It seems the NDA government at the Centre had taken the advice of their then allies, the Akalis, in the matter of the anti-farmer, anti-federal and anti-Constitutional farm laws,” the press note quoted the chief minister as saying.
The SAD was part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance at the Centre until last month, when SAD pulled out of the central government and the alliance over the controversial laws.
