New Delhi: Former Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu was stopped by Delhi Police on Wednesday as he was going to enter the national capital to partake in ‘relay dharna’ drove by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at Jantar Mantar to point out the issues of the farmers and look for fast restoration of goods trains.
Following heated arguments at the Singhu border, Navjot Sidhu and his cavalcade were permitted to enter Delhi. He was going with Congress legislator Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.
In the same manner, different legislators from Punjab were stopped at the entry point in Delhi.
Later Sidhu said to the media that he was in Delhi to partake for the cause for farmers.
Portraying the Centre’s farm laws as an “attack on the federal structure”, Sidhu stated these black laws would demolish the farming community and others related with the agrarian economy.
He included, “The Central government is robbing the rights of our farmers…We have empathy not sympathy with them.”
Following the argument with the police, the Delhi police were accompanying Sidhu and other MLAs present there. Warring said the police has informed to them that they will accompany them till Punjab Bhawan, where the Punjab Congress MLAs were congregating.
Their convoy was at long last accompanied up till Punjab Bhawan in Delhi. Sidhu, while speaking to media said that he was united with the CM on the issue of farmers and he would not utter a word that could have a poor reflection on the unity.
He stated this was shocking that they were stopped at the border and he needed to argue with the police and go on Facebook live to get the police to relent and let them arrive at Punjab Bhawan.
The Chief Minister has reported that he will lead a relay ‘dharna’ of Congress MLAs at the Rajghat on Wednesday to emphasize the state’s “power crisis and critical essential supplies” circumstance in the midst of the Center’s alleged adamant refusal to permit the movement of goods trains because of farmers’ agitation.
The Chief Minister said that Punjab had run out of coal, urea and DAP and other necessary supplies because of the Indian Railways choice not to ply goods trains even after the eased their blockade to permit such movement.
As the emergency brought about complete closure of all the power plants just as the curtailment of agricultural and vegetable supplies, the Chief Minister stated, he had chosen to hold a “symbolic relay dharna” to carry the state’s grim situation to the Center’s notice.
The Chief Minister earlier couldn’t get an appointment with President Ram Nath Kovind on the agricultural-related amendment bills.
