As the farmers walk into the national capital protesting the Farm Bill, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday lauded the farmers of the state for not participating in the demonstration against the three agricultural laws passed by the Centre in September.
While addressing a meeting in Gurugram, Khattar said most of the protest was politically motivated and that Punjab government has indulged in such an act of sponsoring people to go on protests against the Centre.
Khattar added that during the past three days he wanted to discuss with his Punjab counterpart Captain Amarinder Singh about the farmers’ movement but the latter did not respond to his phone calls.
He said that he himself could not understand the exact reason behind this ignorance on the part of the Punjab Chief Minister.
“Some political parties are misleading the farmers which is unfortunate and condemnable,” the Haryana CM said, adding that “the farmers demonstration is motivated by the Punjab government because his cardholders were leading the entire farmer’s movement”.
The CM appreciated the functioning of the Haryana Police.
He said that the police acted with complete restraint during this movement and did not use any force, only to stop them because there is no justification to go to Delhi in such large numbers.
Khattar said: “We again appeal to the farmers representatives to talk to the Centre in this matter as negotiation is the solution.”