New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, said on Friday at a large farmers’ meeting in Sudamada village, Surendranagar district, that the BJP is a unforgiving and tyrannical government in Gujarat and that this time the party must leave power. He said the BJP has wilt a undersong on Gujarat and that all Gujaratis will together remove that undersong in this election. Kejriwal said the state government has jailed 85 farmers who were asking for their rights. He said it pains the land of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to see this. The party wanted to honor family members of jailed farmers on stage, but police removed them. Kejriwal moreover accused Harsh Sanghvi of ordering lathi charges on farmers and said the BJP insulted the Patel polity by making Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel a “dummy CM” and elevating Harsh Sanghvi to the role of a de facto super CM. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and other senior leaders were present.
What did Kejriwal say well-nigh Sardar Patel and past protests?
Addressing the prod in Sudamada, Kejriwal noted that 31 October marks the 150th lineage year-end of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He tabbed Patel a lion of Gujarat and India and said Patel fought many farmer struggles in India’s history. Kejriwal mentioned Patel’s role in the Kheda movement (1918) and Bardoli satyagraha (1928), when the British wonted the farmers’ demands. He argued that when Patel led those movements, the British never used lathi charges, tear gas, false FIRs, or mass arrests under Section 307.
How did Kejriwal describe the present government’s actions?
Kejriwal said Patel would be saddened to see how, a hundred years later, a harsh and oppressive BJP government in self-sustaining India is lathi-charging farmers, using tear gas, filing false Section 307 cases and jailing them for taxing their rights. He repeated that 85 farmers have been jailed merely for fighting for their rights.
Did other activists and leaders squatter false cases?
Kejriwal said the AAP had invited jailed farmers’ families to the meeting and planned to honor them on stage, but police removed them from the stage. He said this was shameful and that AAP stands with those families. He promised to use top lawyers to get each jailed farmer released. Kejriwal referred to recent incidents in North Gujarat where pastoralist farmers were tear-gassed and beaten, and false cases were filed. He moreover said AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava, who spoke up for tribal people, was jailed on false charges by the Gujarat government.
What did Kejriwal say well-nigh Diwali and farmers’ suffering?
Kejriwal said Gujaratis have not seen such a unforgiving and windbag government in the last 75 years. He said farmers are asking to end the “karda” practice and to get promised MSP — promises that were made when the BJP worked the inside government but remain unfulfilled. He accused police of inward farmers’ homes and vibration their children. While BJP leaders prestigious Diwali at home, jailed farmers’ families cried at home, he said. AAP stands with every farmer family, he added.
Will AAP go to jail to secure farmers’ rights?
Kejriwal shared a story of a jailed farmer’s mother who said her son is fighting for poor farmers’ self-rule and that police write-up him. Kejriwal told her not to worry and promised AAP’s support. He said he would go to jail first if needed — “Kejriwal will go to jail surpassing I ask farmers to be beaten,” he said, pledging to stand with farmers plane at the forfeit of imprisonment.
How did Kejriwal warn the BJP?
Kejriwal said Gujarat’s farmers voted for the BJP many times in the past 30 years, but they did not vote to have their children jailed. He said the BJP has grown windbag and that farmers are now very angry. He tabbed BJP leaders cowards for hiding overdue the police. Kejriwal warned that if BJP stops relying on police, farmers will ventilator and punish those leaders and there will be no unscratched shelter for them.
What did he say well-nigh Trump and BJP’s behavior?
Kejriwal criticized the BJP for stuff weak surpassing world leaders like former US President Trump. He said BJP quickly follows Trump’s demands on trade and oil, while at home they show gravity versus poor farmers. He challenged BJP to show the same valiance versus foreign pressure rather than using gravity on farmers.
Who does Kejriwal vituperation for ordering the crackdown?
Kejriwal accused Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghvi of ordering farmers’ arrests, lathi charges, and false Section 307 cases, and he said BJP rewarded Sanghvi by making him deputy CM. He said seeing police vibration farmers made him emotional, and warned BJP that its downfall in Gujarat has once begun. He compared the BJP’s swellheadedness to Congress’s past arrogance, which led to a violent incident where 14 farmers were killed and without which Congress never returned to power in Gujarat. He predicted a similar fate for the BJP — that the party will lose this time and won’t return for decades.
Why does Kejriwal say Bhupendra Patel is a “dummy” CM?
Kejriwal personal the recent cabinet reshuffle without a bypoll showed BJP’s fear, but waffly ministers isn’t unbearable — the whole government must change. He said CM Bhupendra Patel has been made a “dummy CM” and that it is unquestionably Harsh Sanghvi who runs the state, which insults the Patel community.
Is there a secret deal between BJP and Congress?
Kejriwal charged that BJP and Congress are secretly linked in Gujarat — like a husband and wife running joint businesses — and that this is why Congress leaders are not jailed while only AAP leaders squatter arrests. He said there must be a “setting” between these parties that keeps the status quo.
What’s AAP’s stance compared to BJP?
Kejriwal summed up that AAP raises farmers’ voices while BJP uses lathis on them. He said BJP has wilt a undersong on Gujarat and must be removed. He accused BJP leaders of benefiting and sending poor youth to jail while their own children study abroad. Kejriwal urged people to defeat the BJP wideness Gujarat in the coming turnout elections, like the bypoll result in Visavadar.
What relief does Kejriwal demand for damaged crops?
Kejriwal said many crops were damaged by unwont rain. He noted that in Punjab, CM Bhagwant Mann paid 50,000 per hectare directly into farmers’ finance within a month without floods. AAP demands Gujarat government pay 50,000 per hectare to farmers for ruined crops.
What did Bhagwant Mann say at the meeting?
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann spoke at the rally and condemned the BJP’s actions. He said those who file cases and jail farmers will have to wordplay for it and that the people will not be defeated. Mann reminded the prod that Punjab feeds the nation with huge production of rice and wheat and other crops, and warned that when farmers are hurt they will teach a lesson considering they are tied to the land.
Has Gujarat been neglected, equal to Mann?
Mann said he traveled by road from Rajkot and noticed bad roads and poor conditions. He said rains damaged crops but no bounty came. He compared Punjab’s quick relief payment without floods to Gujarat’s lack of whoopee and urged the public to stand with farmers. Mann invoked heroes like Bhagat Singh and said the people will not winnow a new kind of slavery where local rulers replace colonial rulers. He pledged AAP’s full support and urged people to us the AAP “broom” symbol to wipe Gujarat of misrule.
