‘Sack my govt if you want’: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh hands over resolution against farm laws to governor

Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday handed over to Governor VP Singh Badnore the decision handed towards the farm legal guidelines within the state meeting and asserted that he didn’t care about President’s rule being imposed in Punjab or his authorities being sacked however the farmers.

Singh, together with Aam Aadmi Party MLA Harpal Singh Cheema and Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sharan Jit Singh Dhillon met the governor to submit a decision towards three farm legal guidelines -The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020; the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance, Farm Services Bill, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020 – handed by the Centre through the monsoon season of the Parliament final month.

On being questioned about talks of president’s rule being imposed within the state, the chief minister stated, “Punjab’s voice has reached the Governor, he’ll pass it on to the President… I don’t care about the President’s rule. You want to sack my govt? Sack my government, I don’t give a damn. I am doing this for farmers of the state and the country.”

 

Pledging to safeguard the pursuits of the state’s farmers, the Punjab meeting had on Tuesday handed 4 payments and a decision to counter the three agriculture advertising and marketing legal guidelines enacted by the Centre. The farmers, who’re protesting towards the Centre’s farm legal guidelines, consider they’d deprive them of government-fixed minimal help costs (MSPs) for his or her produce and put them on the mercy of massive agribusinesses.

“The government will take legal recourse if the governor does not sign the amendment bills passed in the state assembly to save the farmers and agriculture,” the Punjab CM stated.

Earlier within the month, Congress leaders together with social gathering’s former president Rahul Gandhi organised a tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana to protest towards the enactment of the ‘black’ legal guidelines.