Badal not doing much for farmers: Bhattal
Thursday, 12/09/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130912/punjab.htm#7
Chandigarh : Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had rubbed salt on the wounds of Gujarat Sikh farmers by giving the title of "sardar" to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
She said "sardar" was a prestigious title and the same should not have been bestowed on someone like Modi, who was bent upon evicting Sikh farmers from Gujarat. She said Sikh farmers were scared of Modi because the Gujarat Government was using various measures such as freezing their revenue accounts to evict them from their farm land.
Instead of showering praise on him, Badal should have asked Modi to withdraw appeal filed by his government against Sikh farmers in the Supreme Court. "Shallow assurance by Modi and its endorsement by Badal would not help the affected farmers who have been camping in Delhi for the past several days to contest their case in the Supreme Court," said Bhattal.
"Every one was expecting that Badal, who is a staunch BJP supporter, will return from Gujarat after settling the issue, but nothing happened," she said. Bhattal said the Badal government should immediately implement the historic Land Bill and the Food Security Act passed recently.
