Arvind Kejriwal Backs Protesting Farmers, Claims Centre Plans to Implement 3 ‘Black Laws’

Arvind Kejriwal: Arvind Kejriwal Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that the BJP-led Centre was secretly planning to re-introduce the three "black" farm laws they had withdrawn in 2021 after massive protests by farmers. Reiterating the BJP's intention of not speaking with the farmers protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border over multiple demands, including a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP), he also accused the BJP of saying that.

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"Farmers in Punjab have been sitting on dharna and indefinite hunger strike for many days. Their demands are the same which the central government had accepted three years ago but has not implemented yet. The BJP government has now reneged on its promise. The BJP government is not even talking to the farmers. Talk to them. They are the farmers of our own country. Why is the BJP so arrogant that it does not even talk to anyone?" Kejriwal said in a post in Hindi on X.

Kejriwal said it would be the BJP's responsibility if anything ever happened to farmer leaders.

"May God keep the farmers in Punjab who are on indefinite strike safe, but if something happens to them then BJP will be responsible for it," he said.

In fact, he claimed the government would impose those laws "through the back door."

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"For the information of farmers across the country, let me tell you that the three black laws which were withdrawn by the Centre three years ago due to the farmers' agitation, the Central Government is preparing to implement them again through the back door by calling them "policies". The Centre has sent a copy of this policy to all the states to know their views," he said.

What the Center said?

The agriculture minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, meanwhile, on being asked about joining protests held by farmers, furthered the discussions concerning lifting the deadlock; he said on Wednesday that the government will act on directions of the Supreme Court on the ongoing farmers' protest at the Punjab-Haryana border.

On Thursday, the Punjab government was reprimanded by the Supreme Court when officials of Punjab government and some farmer leaders seemed to build a false impression in the media that the attempts to break Jagjit Singh Dallewal's fast were being made.

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