Denying farmers’ death toll in Parliament shows inhuman and arrogant face of Tomar: Harpal Cheema

Chandigarh: Commenting on the statement made by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in Parliament on the number of farmers who lost their lives during the farmers’ agitation, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said that the Union government was proving to be irresponsible, inhuman and arrogant towards its people.

In a statement issued from the party headquarters, senior leader of the AAP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema, said that the centre government’s failure to provide details of the deaths of its own farmers proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was an irresponsible government.

He said that it was inhuman and arrogant for Union Minister Narendra Tomar to say in the Parliament that there were no statistics on the number of farmers martyred during the agitation. Cheema said that the farmers had been claiming the centre’s new farm laws as ‘death warrants’ for a long time but the government, justifying the death warrants of the farmers, had spent Rs 7.95 crore on its advertisements.

He said that it was an insult to the martyred farmers that the Modi government had spent crores of rupees of the exchequer to promote pro-corporate laws. “So far about 228 farmers have been martyred but it was highly reprehensible that the government had no plans for their families,” he added.

Cheema said that the farmers were working day and night to produce food for the country and the sons of the farmers were protecting the country at the borders and getting martyred; but rejecting the same farmer by the Modi government, could not be more dishonour.

He said that the fact that the centre government did not have the number of martyred farmers proved that the Modi government was dishonest. Cheema said that the Union government had become so enslaved by a few corporate houses that without them, it could not see any other citizen of the country.

He said that till now the proverb of playing the flute of Nero had been used, but now the people of India were seeing the ‘Nero’ of the modern age. Cheema said that the ‘annadatas’ of our country were being martyred while fighting for their survival, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi was talking nonsense.