JALANDHAR: Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Friday alleged that Centre was trying to segregate Punjab through a propaganda campaign to project it as a disturbed area.
“The government is saying that opposition parties are using farmers to target it (government), but actually the Union government is using them (farmers) to kill democracy and the spirit of Constitution in the country. They wish to push through their plan for fascist authoritarian rule and targeting and vilification of the farmers’ movement is manifestation of that mindset and plan,” he said here.
“It is no more a hidden agenda. This can be the last people’s movement in free India. States are passing orders to criminalise even participation in protests. These are clear signs of what is in store,” he said.
The PPCC president added, “Punjab is being segregated through a vilification campaign by the government. It depends upon the people of the country... if the nails on the ground near protest sites become nails in the coffin of this government or the democracy in the country.” He alleged that BJP was trying to sow seeds of divisions in Punjab and that their “Tiranga yatras are actually aimed at danga (riots)”.