CHANDIGARH: The Punjab BJP on Wednesday alleged that Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh was indulging in political drama at Rajghat and Jantar Mantar to please the Congress high command instead of advising farmers to withdraw their protest or change their mode of protest by vacating railway tracks.
State BJP president Ashwani Sharma and party’s national general secretary Tarun Chugh attacked Amarinder for creating a deceptive hype on the three amendment bills passed by the Punjab legislative assembly. They said while these three amendment bills had been rejected by farmers’ organisations and the Congress government in Chhattisgarh for being unconstitutional, Amarinder was trying to score political brownie points to impress Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
They also blamed the chief minister for the coal crisis in Punjab, saying he had failed in his constitutional duty of restoring law and order in the state following which the power production at thermal plants had taken a hit. They said that freight trains were not coming to Punjab because at 29 railway platforms and three other places, railway tracks were blocked by farmers. “The chief minister has been secretly telling the farmers to keep the railway tracks blocked, so that he could play his political games in the name of farmers,” alleged the BJP leaders.
Sharma said, “The chief minister’s visit to Rajghat, when Punjab was running gangs of liquor mafia and sand mafia, was a grossly immoral act. He has no moral right to visit such sacrosanct places.”