SAD will not allow famers cause to be sabotaged through governmental conspiracies” Sukhbir Badal to Union Ministers Raj Nath Singh, Tomar
SAD delegation meets Kisan leader Rakesh S Tikait, assures of him of total support
Sukhbir condemns violence against farmers by “BJP-sponsored goons”: locals support farmers”
Chandigarh, January 29- The Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal today spoke to the celebrated Kisan leader Rakesh Tikait and discussed way to shore up more strength and support for the farmers agitation in Delhi especially in view of the combined onslaught against farmers by the BJP and the government of India .
Consequent upon the telephonic conversation Badal instructed the Akali cadre to rush to Delhi in even larger numbers than before to join their brethren on the Delhi borders and lend strength to the peaceful movement. While many Akali contingents have already joined the farmers in the gathering, more are on the way in large numbers
Following his telephonic conversation with Tikait, Badal dispatched an Akali delegation comprising senior leader Balwinder Singh Bhunder, SAD Delhi president Jathedar Harmit Singh Kalka and the Delhi Sikh religious body chief Jathedar Manjindner Singh Sirsa to the site of the farmers dharna led by Tikait. These leaders had extensive talks with the Kisan leader and discussed ways to lend more strength to the agitation. The delegation assured Mr Tikait of “whole hearted support in terms of men, material and morale” to the farmers’ cause as the SAD is unanimously regarded as the largest elected representative of the farmers of Punjab
Earlier in the day, the SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal led the Opposition efforts to confront the government on the anti farmer bills. Badal confronted the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Raj Nath Singh a thte main entrance to the Parliament House, asking them to revoke the three anti farmer Acts against which the peasants, farm labour and the arhtiyas have been agitating peacefully for over two months.
Badal told the Union leaders that his party which had resigned from the Union cabinet and quit the NDA as protest agains tht government’s refusal to withdraw the three anti farmer Acts, would never let the famers agitation against these Acts to be either sabotaged or weakend through government conspiracies.
