Punjab Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa and other Congress leaders on Tuesday staged a protest outside the Assembly against Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann.
Earlier on Monday, Bajwa slammed the Central and Haryana governments for their handling of the ongoing farmers’ protest, drawing parallels with the recent French farmers’ protest in Paris.
Bajwa asserted that the police from Delhi and Haryana had no right to impede the farmers’ movement. “The manner in which Punjab was barricaded by the Central Government as well as the Haryana Government. Business suffered. At this time, the state government and the CM himself should have gone to the centre with the demands of the farmers…This is a border state, it is essential to maintain peace in a state with an international border. But the CM did not shoulder his responsibility,” Bajwa told ANI.
(With inputs from agencies)
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Published: 05 Mar 2024, 10:39 AM IST