Sidhu calls Amarinder ‘architect’ of farm legal guidelines, former CM dubs ex-cricketer a ‘fraud’

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday known as Amarinder Singh the “architect” of the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines, drawing a pointy response from the previous chief minister who dubbed the ex-cricketer a “fraud and a cheat”.

Sidhu’s comment got here two days after Amarinder Singh mentioned he would launch his personal political get together and that he was hopeful of a seat association with the BJP, supplied the continuing farmers’ stir towards the farm legal guidelines was resolved within the agriculturists’ curiosity.

Amarinder Singh, who had confronted an unceremonious exit from the state authorities final month, had additionally mentioned that he was additionally taking a look at an alliance with like-minded events comparable to breakaway Akali teams.

“The architect of three black laws… Who brought Ambani to Punjab’s kisani… Who destroyed Punjab’s farmers, small traders and labour for benefiting one-two big corporates,” Sidhu tweeted on Thursday in an obvious reference to farmers’ allegations that huge corporates will dictate phrases to agriculturists with the passage of those legal guidelines.

Sidhu additionally uploaded an previous video of Amarinder Singh wherein he was heard speaking about some vegetable crops underneath a field-to-fork programme.

Reacting to Sidhu’s tweet a couple of hours later, the previous chief minister informed him, “What a fraud and cheat you are!”

“You’re trying to pass off my 15-year-old crop diversification initiative as connected with #FarmLaws against which I’m still fighting and with which I’ve linked my own political future,” mentioned Amarinder Singh as quoted by his media advisor in a tweet.

“It’s obvious @sherryontopp you’re clueless about Punjab’s and its farmers’ interests. You clearly don’t know the difference between diversification and what the #FarmLaws are all about. And yet you dream of leading Punjab. How dreadful if that ever happens,” he mentioned.

Further taking a swipe at Sidhu, Amarinder Singh mentioned that it was hilarious that he selected to submit the video at a time when the Punjab authorities was going all out to advertise its upcoming Progressive Punjab Investors’ Summit. “Or are you opposed to that too,” he requested the previous cricketer.

The Charanjit Singh Channi-led authorities will maintain the traders’ summit on October 26 and 27.

Amarinder Singh had resigned because the Punjab chief minister final month amid a bitter energy tussle with Sidhu. Channi changed Amarinder Singh because the CM.

Hundreds of farmers, largely from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting on the Delhi borders since November 26 final 12 months, demanding the repeal of the three new farm legal guidelines.