Keypoints:
- BJP calls 2 day session a joke.
- Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said the BJP has no right to point fingers at anyone after the way it has treated farmers protesting in Delhi.
- Referring to the use of water cannons, he asked whether pouring water on farmers in the biting cold was a sign of harmony.
Slamming the opposition for saying there is an undeclared emergency in the state, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has said the BJP has no right to point fingers at anyone after the way it has treated farmers protesting in Delhi.
“They have called them terrorists, Khalistanis, Pakistanis,” he said. “Rather than talking to them, they are left out in the cold. If there is an undeclared emergency in Maharashtra, then how would they describe the situation in Delhi?”
He said the opposition accused his government of “non-performance” because it was so busy trying to topple his government that it did not get to know all that it had done.
BJP IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted a purported video of protesting farmers where a man is heard citing PM Indira Gandhi’s assassination in an apparent bid to threaten PM Modi.
The person in the video is heard saying “Indira thok di, Modi ki chhati par…” before his words become difficult to decipher. The video also includes purported media reports about Khalistan-related banners popping up at some protest venues.
इंदिरा ठोक दी… मोदी की छाती पर…
What kind of farmer agitation is this? Is Capt Amarinder Singh playing with fire? When will Congress realise that politics of aligning with radical elements has reached its sell date? pic.twitter.com/dNg7871KZ2
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 27, 2020
On Sunday, the opposition boycotted the chief minister’s traditional tea party to protest against the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government over its “misgovernance” and “refusal to listen to people’s issues”.
Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis addressed a press conference at the BJP state headquarters and criticised the government for refusing to hold a proper legislative session.
“We asked for a two-week session.
The session would be only for a day and that too for about six to seven hours, said Fadnavis. “The first day there will be a condolence meet and no legislative business will be conducted. This leaves only one day, which the government will use to pass the supplementary demands. There will be no time for meaningful discussions. Farmers across the state are badly affected, first by the cyclone in Konkan, then by the floods in other parts, and now crops are infested. There was panchnama only for crop loss because of the floods. No panchnama for crop loss in Vidarbha, no action on crop loss on account of infestation,” he said.
However, a Delhi BJP member, Impreet Singh Bakshi, urged social media users to refrain from labelling the farmers Khalistanis, saying the protesters “might be misguided” by the leaders of the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) or the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Its my humble request to all SM Users who are abusing Punjab farmers & labelling them as khalistani, is not at all right, they are also our brothers, sister's and elderly people!!🙏
They might be misguided by Congress/Akali/ AAP leader's bcoz majority of middlemen belong to them.— Impreet Singh Bakshi ਇਮਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਖ਼ਸ਼ੀ (@impreetsbakshi) November 27, 2020
