Unconditional repeal of agriculture laws only way out for Centre: Ex-Cabinet Minister Baldev Singh Maan

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 4

Condemning the Centre and Uttar Pradesh’s BJP government over Sunday’s violence in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, former Punjab food and supplies minister Baldev Singh Maan lashed out at the BJP on Monday.

"The tragic mishap in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri yesterday has evoked a massive wave of anger towards the indifferent, arrogant and incompetent working of the BJP in UP and also in the Centre,” he said, a day after the violence that left eight people dead.

Maan further spoke about how the government's ill-treatment of farmers is directly tantamount to insulting every Indian.

"This country was built and is still being built by the blood, sweat and tears of the farmer. The Centre is busy catering to crony capitalists and this has already gone too far. They sold public properties, they sold off the dreams and aspirations of the youth, and now they are selling the very soul of India,” Mann, a core member of the Shiromani Akali Dal, a party that was formerly allied with the BJP, said.

“This cannot be allowed to go on. This country belongs to its farmers. Give them their due, repeal the Farm Laws unconditionally, and that too with gratitude for what the farmers have done for this nation," he said, calling for the resignations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Adityanath. "If the farmer is not safe, our annadata is being humiliated and killed, what moral authority do these people have left to continue in office."

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