Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Lok Sabha MP Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that September 17 will be considered as a black day for the farmers of India as on his birthday Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a bunch of anti-farmer bills to the nation.
Mann said that both the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal are equally responsible for bringing these bills.
“The AAP protested against these bills at the Lok Sabha. I am making it very clear that this amendment bill is completely against the farmers and will only benefit the industrialists. At the end of the day, the farmers will become beggars. The farmers are very strong and no bill or atrocity can stop these courageous people," he said.
"The Green Revolution has affected the farmers of Punjab because the groundwater level has gone down drastically. Amid all these problems the farmers of Punjab were trying their best, but now after these amendments, their lives will be devastated,” he said.
Mann said, "I want to ask the Congress party to clear their stand on this issue. When these bills were in the preparatory state then the Punjab Chief Minister
Captain Amarinder Singh and Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal supported these bills. Both of these leaders are from the Congress party. I believe that both the Congress party and the Shiromani Akali Dal are equally responsible for these anti-farmer bills”.
