Chandigarh, March 24, 2021
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government saying that the Modi government was taking away power from the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi only because of its support to the farmers who were agitating against the black farm laws. In a statement issued from the party headquarters, AAP state president and MP Bhagwant Mann said that the Modi government today was reluctant and playing tricks to make the Delhi government a mute government as it did not support the Modi government at the Centre to crush the farmers’ movement. “The truth has come out from the speech of BJP MP from Delhi Meenakshi Lekhi in Parliament. Modi is anxious with the Kejriwal government for supporting the farmers who were fighting for their rights in a democratic manner,” he added.
Mann said that the Kejriwal government had refused for the buses to be used by the Delhi Police to quell the farmers’ agitation and the stadiums to be turned into jails to keep the farmers. He said that the Aam Aadmi Party had been opposing these black laws ever since the Modi government had enacted laws to enslave the farmers. “That is why the Modi government at the Centre has recently introduced a bill in the Parliament to reduce the powers of Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi,” he added. He said that with a dictatorial attitude, the Modi government was trying to undermine the powers of a democratically elected government. Mann said that the Aam Aadmi Party would stand shoulder to shoulder in the struggle of the farmers who were agitating for their survival and facing every adversity.
