In his letter, Bhagwant Mann said farmers from Punjab and all over the country have been struggling against the quot;black farm laws quot; of the Centre for the past one year.
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AAP always recognised my vision, work for Punjab: Sidhu amid Congress infighting
By PTI
CHANDIGARH: Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday targeted the AAP saying that the party which is now criticising him has praised him in the past.Sidhu’s remarks came a day after Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann took a dig at him and asked him to tweet about the “funds” allegedly accepted by the ruling Congress from private power companies in the state.
The cricketer-turned-politician also shared on Twitter old videos of senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh praising him for raising his voice on several issues including the drug mafia and corruption during the previous SAD-BJP regime and Mann himself calling him a “damn honest” person.
Sidhu’s tweets come amid attempts by the Congress high command to resolve infighting in the party’s Punjab unit and speculation that he may be appointed as the state unit president.
“Our opposition AAP has always recognised my vision & work for Punjab. Be it Before 2017- Beadbi, Drugs, Farmers Issues, Corruption & Power Crisis faced by People of Punjab raised by me or today as I present “Punjab Model” It is clear they know – who is really fighting for Punjab,” Sidhu said in a series of tweets.
He said, “If the Opposition dares to question me, yet they can’t escape my Pro-People Agenda. This means they have resigned to their fate!!”
“Our Opposition singing about me and other loyal Congressmen:- tum agar AAP mein aaoge to koi baat nahin. tum agar Congress mein rahoge to mushkil hogi (if you join the AAP, then there is no issue. if you stay in the Congress, then there will be a problem),” he added.
On Monday, AAP leader Mann had alleged that the Punjab government was not scrapping the power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government as the ruling Congress had accepted “funds” from the three private companies that have set up thermal plants in the state.
He asked Sidhu to tweet on this issue.
“@sherryontopp Saab, If not anything else, we hope you could bother to at least tweet on the issue as you are used to,” he said in a tweet.
Sidhu, who has been raising power supply-related issues through social media, had demanded that a white paper on PPAs signed during the SAD-BJP regime be released to make the Badals “accountable” to the people for these “corrupt agreements”.
A few days ago, Sidhu had attacked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government over its petition in the Supreme Court seeking the closure of 10 coal-fired power plants in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
The petition was later withdrawn.
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Bhagwant Mann challenges Harsimrat Badal, Amarinder to make public their statements on farm laws
By PTI
NEW DELHI: AAP leader Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday challenged former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to make public the statements made by them last year in a high-level committee meeting on the Centre’s three farm laws.AAP claims that the Congress chief minister and Badal had approved the draft bills that were presented to them in the high-level committee meeting.
The panel was formed to evaluate the bills before being presented in Parliament for passage.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, the AAP MP from Sangrur claimed that rival political parties were trying to create confusion among the people by spreading lies about the Aam Aadmi Party, but the people of Punjab understand their tricks well.
The party’s Punjab unit president said the proposal put forward by the government in these laws would give impetus to hoarding and under a conspiracy to remove onions and tomatoes from the list of essential commodities, it will make life difficult for the poor.
He claimed that with the implementation of these farm laws, hoarders would stockpile goods and later sell them at exorbitant prices which would make life difficult for the common man.
Mann said he has made public his minutes of the committee meeting.
“Now she should also make public the proceedings of the meeting of June 5, 2020 when these black laws came in the cabinet meeting and she supported them,” he added.
“When Badal was a minister in the Modi-led central government, she used to praise these black laws and tell people that they were very progressive laws for the farmers and now was trying to be benevolent to the farmers,” the AAP leader alleged.
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AAP holds motorbike rallies in Punjab to mobilise people for January 26 tractor parade of farmers
By PTI
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took out motorbike rallies in several parts of the state on Saturday to mobilise people for a proposed tractor parade of farmers in Delhi on January 26.AAP legislator and Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema said the party workers took out two-wheeler rallies across the state to mobilise people for the tractor parade in the national capital on Republic Day.
All party MLAs organised motorcycle rallies with supporters and volunteers in their respective constituencies, AAP’s state unit president Bhagwant Mann said.
The motorbike rallies were organised at many places in Punjab, including Sangrur, Mohali and Faridkot.
The AAP workers taking part in the rallies carried placards with slogans such as “No Farmer No Food” and “Kisan Mazdoor Ekta Zindabad”.
Through the motorcycle rallies, AAP workers called on the people to join the tractor parade to be held on January 26 and conveyed support to the farmers sitting in protest at Delhi’s borders in this cold weather, Mann said.
“This rally was not taken out for any political purpose, nor should it be seen as political. We all come from farmer families and farming is in our blood. Our ancestors were farmers and still more than 80 per cent of the people of Punjab are involved in farming. Being the son of a farmer, we have organised this motorcycle rally to show our support to the tractor parade to be held on January 26,” he said.
“For the last several months, the country’s farmers have been protesting against the Centre’s anti-farmer agriculture black laws. But instead of yielding to their demands, the Union government is trying to stigmatize the farmers’ movement by branding them as terrorists, traitors, agents of Pakistan and China,” Mann alleged.
The AAP has already announced that it will join the farmers’ tractor parade in Delhi but “not as a political party”.
MLAs and office-bearers from the party’s Punjab unit would take part in the tractor parade on January 26.
The farmer unions protesting against three farm laws of the Centre have said that they will go ahead with their proposed tractor parade in Delhi on Republic Day.
They have said the tractor parade will be held on the busy Outer Ring Road in the national capital.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at several border points of Delhi since November 28 last year, demanding a repeal of the three farm laws and a legal guarantee to the minimum support price (MSP) for their crops.
Enacted in September last year, the three laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove middlemen and allow farmers to sell their products anywhere in the country.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of MSP and do away with the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.
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AAP to hold bike rallies to mobilise people for farmers’ tractor parade
By PTI
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab unit of AAP on Thursday said it will mobilise people for the farmers’ proposed tractor parade in New Delhi on January 26 by holding motorcycle rallies across the state.In a joint statement here, party’s state president Bhagwant Mann and its farmer wing chief and MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan said the party will hold motorcycle rallies across Punjab on January 23.
They said people will be mobilised to join the farmers’ proposed tractor parade in New Delhi.
All MLAs and office-bearers of the Aam Aadmi Party will take part in the tractor parade.
The AAP has already announced that it will join the farmers’ tractor parade on January 26 in Delhi but “not as a political party”.
“Today, our country is going through a very critical period and all the rights enshrined in the Constitution are being trampled on by the ruling party at the Centre,” they added.
Farmer unions had announced that they will hold a tractor parade on Delhi’s Outer Ring Road as part of the protest against the new agri-marketing laws enacted by the Centre.