Farmers simply an excuse to return to energy in Punjab, BJP chief Gautam Gambhir on Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal.
New Delhi:
BJP parliamentarian Gautam Gambhir took a swipe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying his help to farmers was only a ruse to wrest energy in Punjab.
The remark got here hours after Aam Aadmi Party members mentioned their chief had been positioned below “house arrest” for his Monday go to to the Delhi-Haryana border, the place hundreds of farmers are protesting towards the controversial farm legal guidelines. The Delhi Police has denied the cost.
“Farmers are just an excuse to come to power in Punjab! Only Arvind Kejriwal can manage to lock himself in his house and then shout “home arrest”,” the previous cricketer tweeted in Hindi.
किसान तो सिर्फ बहाना है, पंजाब की सियासत में आना है!
खुद ही घर में बंद होकर हाउस अरेस्ट चिल्लाना, ये सिर्फ @ArvindKejriwal कर सकते हैं
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) December 8, 2020
The Aam Aadmi Party is the second main social gathering in Punjab after the Congress.
Though each events help the farmers’ calls for their leaders have been locked in an intense battle of barbs over their governments’ stand on the “black laws”.
Gautam Gambhir’s jibe got here because the BJP upped its ante on opposition events for supporting demand for repealing the legal guidelines, the centre says would reform the agriculture sector, open new markets and improve farmers’ earnings.
On Monday, whereas Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned the NDA authorities’s farm sector reforms solely provide what the opposition’s to-do record had all alongside, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath lashed out at opposition events for “politicising” farm payments.
The assault got here as all opposition events within the nation, barring the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, backed the decision for Bharat Bandh on December 8 – a day forward of farmers’ sixth spherical of talks with the federal government.
The talks have remained inconclusive until now because the centre confirmed no indicators of calling a particular session of the parliament to scrap the legal guidelines, however maintained it will amend them to handle key issues.