NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday attacked chief ministers of Punjab and Delhi for feuding over each other’s claim to be the champion of farmers’ cause, saying the partisan fight was a confirmation that opposition parties were seeking to hijack the farm protests.
On a day when Congress’s Amarinder Singh and Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal, CMs of Punjab and Delhi respectively, attacked each other for not being sincere in their support for the protesters, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “The farmers’ protest has become a battle of political groups, not farmers. Look at AAP and Captain Amarinder Singh’s tweet war, they are fighting each other. What do you think they are fighting for... the interest of farmers? No, they are fighting to see who can sit on the throne without doing any work.”
He added that the real reason for Kejriwal’s fast was his hunger for power.
Patra also seized upon the party’s win in local body elections in Goa to claim that the latest success showed that the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP was intact among farmers and the poor. “The poor, rural regions and farmers form the spine of this country. These results would not have been possible without their support,” he said.
Patra also stressed that the saffron success in Goa came on the back of the party’s performance in Bihar, polls to zila parishads in Congress-ruled Rajasthan as well as Bodoland Tribal Council, contrasting the BJP’s successes with Congress’s miserable score.