Modi’s assurance to farmers meaningless, says Bajwa
Monday, 24/02/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140224/punjab.htm#4
Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa today said that BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had not promised to withdraw the Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against the stay granted by the Gujarat High Court to Sikh farmers.
“Why did Modi not announce that his government will withdraw the SLP? His assurances that Punjabi farmers in Gujarat will not be evicted are hollow," he said.
In a statement, Bajwa said it was shameful that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had been unable to convince Modi to withdraw the SLP. "Unless the SLP is withdrawn, all talk of protection to Sikh farmers settled in Kutch is meaningless," he said.
The PPCC chief said the grim reality was that the minorities in Gujarat were being targeted, be it the Muslims, Christians or Sikhs.
Correcting Modi, Bajwa said that drugs were not coming into Punjab, but were being supplied from Punjab to all over the world. He said Punjab was, perhaps, the only state in the country where "drug units are run by the state government and drug consignments are supplied under police protection."
He claimed that the Congress, not the BJP, was the force behind the one rank, one pension scheme for ex-servicemen. " To speak on issues such as communal harmony, Modi must first apologise to the nation for the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat," Bajwa added.
