Deploy police to protect farmers: Congress MP, AAP to Punjab govt.
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Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa and the Aam Admi Party (AAP) have written to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, searching for deployment of State police to protect farmers from Punjab agitating at Delhi’s borders.
Mr. Bajwa additionally talked about “missing farmers from Punjab” after the violence of January 26 within the nationwide capital and urged the CM to use the State’s sources to guarantee their security.
Mr. Bajwa stated amid studies that over 100 farmers from the State have been lacking because the occasions of January 26 and there had been no phrase to the households on their standing or current situation. “As the custodian of the State, I urge you to use all available resources available to the government of Punjab to trace these farmers and ensure their return to their families. It is extremely worrying that Punjabi farmers have been detained with no information being shared with their families or lawyers,” he wrote.
Mr. Bajwa added that violence was unleashed towards protesting farmers on January 29 at Delhi’s Singhu border by mobs, which make it evident that farmers are beneath risk from numerous teams who want to malign the peaceable protests. “Given the present situation, I further urge you to deploy Punjab Police personnel immediately to make certain the safety of our farmers,” stated Mr. Bajwa.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has additionally written to Capt. Singh, searching for police safety for the protesting farmers. AAP’s Punjab co-in-charge Raghav Chadha in his letter has requested the CM to deploy Punjab police personnel on the dharna websites.
Meanwhile, trashing the AAP’s demand as “arbitrary, absurd and irrational”, Capt. Singh on Sunday stated the AAP had clearly misplaced all sense of Constitutional and authorized propriety, and was fully ignorant even on the legislation laid down by the very best courtroom of the land.
“This demand is not only completely illogical and frivolous, but against all principles and rules of the law,” he stated.
Mocking the AAP’s “senseless demand”, the CM identified that, as per a Union Home Ministry directive and a Supreme Court order, the Punjab Police can not keep in one other State for greater than 72 hours even for a protectee, which the farmers are in any case not. “So, this would mean that even if I sign an order today declaring some, if not all, farmers out there as protectees, that would mean the Punjab Police can only be with them for 72 hours and not more,” he added.
Capt. Amarinder termed the letter from AAP as nothing greater than a tactic by the social gathering to divert public consideration from its personal function within the Red Fort violence, which had uncovered the farmers to assaults and victimisation by the Delhi Police. “AAP’s own men were caught on camera inciting trouble at the Red Fort on Republic Day,” he stated, including that the collusion between AAP and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the farm legal guidelines had been uncovered lengthy again when the Delhi authorities notified one of many legal guidelines in its personal State, and that their collusion was now not a matter of debate or dialogue.
