Arvind Kejriwal blames BJP, govt for Red Fort incident on Jan 26

ALLEGING THAT the incident of elevating a non secular flag on Red Fort throughout the protesting farmers’ tractor rally via Delhi on January 26 was orchestrated by the BJP-led Union authorities, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday stated that the “ones who raised the flag (on Red Fort) were their (BJP’s) own karyakartas”.
Addressing a kisan panchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, Kejriwal additionally stated that farmers have been failed by political events since many years, and the three agri legal guidelines introduced in by the Centre particularly is a demise knell for farmers.
This was AAP’s maiden kisan panchayat in Uttar Pradesh, after a collection of such gatherings held by the Congress, the Ajit Singh-led RLD and the BKU throughout the state, particularly in western UP. The rally at Meerut’s Sanskriti Resort floor was attended by greater than 5,000 folks.
In a reference to the BJP-led authorities on the Centre, Kejriwal stated. “Laal kile ka pura kaand inhone karwaya (they orchestrated the whole incident at Red Fort). I am the CM of Delhi and people from all states – UP, Haryana, Punjab – come to me. They all told me that they (BJP) were giving directions to the people, asking them to go here or there, since they (protesters) didn’t know the roads (of Delhi). The ones who raised the flag (on Red Fort) were their own karyakartas.”
Accusing the Centre of falsely prosecuting farmers, he stated, “Our farmers can be anything, our farmers can die. But they will not be traitors.”
On farmers’ protests on the doorways of Delhi, Kejriwal stated: “Our farmer brothers are sitting in protest for more than 95 days – no one enjoys being out in the cold; 250 farmers have died. In 70 years, many governments came. All parties fooled the farmers. All parties say, we will give farmers the right price before elections. If that had happened, no farmer would have died (in all these years). These farm laws are a death warrant – every farmer will be reduced to a mere laborer in his own farm. This is a do-or-die battle.”

Kejriwal stated BJP had promised earlier than 2014 General Election that the Swaminathan report can be applied as soon as it kinds the federal government, nevertheless it subsequently submitted an affidavit in court docket that they won’t give MSP.
Slamming the federal government for its therapy of farmers, he drew parallels with the British rule: “Farmers have been met with lathis, water cannons, keelein (nails). Even the British did not behave like this. You have left the British behind — even the British didn’t put nails when they went to collect revenue.”
The AAP is trying to intensify agitation towards the farmer laws in UP via extra such gatherings.
With AAP having introduced its resolution to contest the UP Assembly elections due subsequent 12 months, Kejriwal additionally appeared to set the bottom for future campaigning, recalling insurance policies applied by his authorities after it got here to energy in Delhi. He acknowledged {that a} authorities with “achhi niyat (good intention)” ought to come to energy in UP.