Five-time Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal on Friday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement on withdrawal of three Black laws on farming as "a defining moment in history," and said that it marks a historic day for farmers on the sacred day of Guru Nanak Dev ji's Prakash purb."
"This is the greatest event in the history of farmers’ struggles all over the world. I thank the great Guru Nanak Dev ji Maharaj and congratulate every farmer working hard on his fields," Badal said in a statement.
Bemoaning that the farmers were not consulted before enacting these laws, the former Chief Minister said, "It was the first time in the history of democratic Governments that brazen and cruel laws were made without even taking the stakeholders on board. No Government should ever do such an insensitive and cruel thing again."
Reacting to the PM's announcement, Badal said that this decision will have implications far beyond the farmers and will have a wide ranging and long-lasting impact on the struggle for justice for the poor and the deprived across the world.
Badal, however, expressed sadness over the loss of precious lives during the struggle.
