Amarinder accuses AAP of ‘double standards’ over controversial agriculture laws

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 1

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over what he says is their “shocking double standards” on farmers’ protests and accused them of “completely exposing themselves” by implementing the controversial agriculture laws.

“Even as AAP was claiming to be supporting the agitating farmers, the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi had brazenly executed the black laws through a gazette notification on November 23, 2020,” a press note from the chief minister said on Tuesday.

“Quite clearly, AAP had been working behind the farmers’ backs all these days. Do they have no shame,” he said, giving his government’s example of having passed amendments to negate the effects of the Centre’s laws.

 “First they failed to pass any amendment laws in the Delhi Assembly to negate the central laws, as was done in Punjab. And now they have gone so far as to officially notify the agricultural legislations in Delhi, where AAP is in power. The party’s true intent and affiliation has been utterly exposed,” he said.

Amarinder Singh’s Congress and AAP are rivals in Punjab, the state in which the protests against the central government’s agriculture laws have been chiefly centred.