Bathinda/Budladha, October 2
Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of building war hysteria as he asked people to resist Punjab Government’s attempts to have villages in border areas cleared.
Amarinder accused Modi of attempting to project himself as the 'Saviour of Hindutava' in an attempt to clinch the mammoth UP assembly elections due next year. He advised people against leaving their homes, as the state government continued to evacuate villages in Punjab’s border for the fear of retaliation from Pakistan to the Indian Army’s recent surgical strikes on the latter’s soil.
“Moving poor people from their homes without a valid reason and without any proper rehabilitation camps is just a rubbish and cruel exercise created out of ‘political ambitions. The Indian and Pakistani troops are still positioned in their barracks. They have not moved to the front or their respective battle positions. Then why are poor farmers who expect a bumper paddy crop being forced leave their homes and belongings? Tell me have the 17 Div at Ferozepur, 15 Div at Amritsar and the 10 Corp at Bathinda moved to the forward border positions? No, they are still in their barracks. Then why the Home ministry has ordered evacuation of people?” he said, calling the orders “unprecedented” and “un-called” for and accusing the state government of following orders “blindly”.
“Strangely, the Defence Ministry has not issued any directions or orders for evacuation of Punjab border villages. Instead, the orders have come from the Home Ministry headed by Rajnath Singh. There are no orders from the Western Command. The Home Ministry shot off its orders to the SAD-BJP led Punjab government and the state government blindly started following these without caring about their effect on the lives of people, particularly farmers and farm labour.
If they leave their standing and ripened crops behind, their losses will run into losses of crores of rupees at a time when the farm economy has already in tatters due to wrong policies of the government. Who will give provide them with actual compensation in commensuration with their losses?”
Punjab government has ordered villages within 10 km of the India-Pakistan border to be cleared.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of building war hysteria as he asked people to resist Punjab Government’s attempts to have villages in border areas cleared.
Amarinder accused Modi of attempting to project himself as the 'Saviour of Hindutava' in an attempt to clinch the mammoth UP assembly elections due next year. He advised people against leaving their homes, as the state government continued to evacuate villages in Punjab’s border for the fear of retaliation from Pakistan to the Indian Army’s recent surgical strikes on the latter’s soil.
“Moving poor people from their homes without a valid reason and without any proper rehabilitation camps is just a rubbish and cruel exercise created out of ‘political ambitions. The Indian and Pakistani troops are still positioned in their barracks. They have not moved to the front or their respective battle positions. Then why are poor farmers who expect a bumper paddy crop being forced leave their homes and belongings? Tell me have the 17 Div at Ferozepur, 15 Div at Amritsar and the 10 Corp at Bathinda moved to the forward border positions? No, they are still in their barracks. Then why the Home ministry has ordered evacuation of people?” he said, calling the orders “unprecedented” and “un-called” for and accusing the state government of following orders “blindly”.
“Strangely, the Defence Ministry has not issued any directions or orders for evacuation of Punjab border villages. Instead, the orders have come from the Home Ministry headed by Rajnath Singh. There are no orders from the Western Command. The Home Ministry shot off its orders to the SAD-BJP led Punjab government and the state government blindly started following these without caring about their effect on the lives of people, particularly farmers and farm labour.
If they leave their standing and ripened crops behind, their losses will run into losses of crores of rupees at a time when the farm economy has already in tatters due to wrong policies of the government. Who will give provide them with actual compensation in commensuration with their losses?”
Punjab government has ordered villages within 10 km of the India-Pakistan border to be cleared.
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