Dushyant Chautala accuses Punjab CM of cheating farmers by passing farm bills

After Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala on Thursday additionally accused the Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh of dishonest farmers of Punjab by passing agriculture payments within the state meeting.

“I request Punjab chief minister not to cheat farmers. If they’ve to bring a law, then they should’ve brought it for crops produced at large level by farmers, which sell at a lower rate than minimum support price (MSP) in the market,” Chautala instructed reporters.

Yesterday, a confrontation started between Kejriwal and Amarinder Singh, after Delhi chief minister responded to a tweet by CMO Punjab by which Punjab chief minister accused each the Aam Aadmi Party and Shiromani Akali Dal of “double standards”.

Kejriwal and Amarinder Singh took swipes at one another on Twitter over the agriculture payments handed by Punjab meeting with the Delhi CM accusing the Punjab CM of “enacting a drama” and “befooling people”.

Punjab Assembly on Tuesday handed a decision rejecting three farm legal guidelines enacted by the central authorities as additionally the proposed Electricity Amendment Bill with the chief minister later main a delegation to the Governor VP Singh Badnore urging him to offer his assent to 3 payments handed by the meeting.

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Punjab is the primary state to reject the three farm legal guidelines which had been enacted after passage of related payments within the monsoon session of parliament final month.

The meeting handed three payments “unanimously” to “protect MSP and check hoarding of foodgrains”.

The House additionally handed by voice vote an modification to CrPC for exempting farmers from the attachment of land as much as 2.5 acres.

The meeting handed Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020.