Amritpal Singh facing NSA, not farmers, says MoS Ravneet Bittu

New Delhi: Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu attacked Jalandhar MP Charanjit Channi for “wrongly claiming farmers were booked under the NSA”. Bittu, who switched from the Congress to the saffron party days ahead of the recent General Election, termed it an “outrageous ploy to demean and mock the farmers”. “Today, a former CM (referring to Channi) behaved in an anti-national manner and misled the world through the Lok Sabha. He claimed the NSA was imposed on the farmers, which is not the case. It was against radical forces (Amritpal Singh) which wanted to break Punjab away from India,” he pointed out.

Bittu also slammed the Congress leadership for backing Channi in the House. “While he spoke, the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi was sitting there, enabling these statements,” he said. /Agencies