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- Published: September 28, 2020 15:04
New Delhi: After a tractor was burnt near India Gate by Punjab Youth Congress workers who were protesting against the farm bill, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh while talking to the media said, “If I have a tractor and I set it on fire, why should it bother anyone else?.”
This statement comes after a tractor was set on fire near India Gate in Delhi by 15-20 unidentified people belonging to the Punjab Youth Congress.
The workers had brought the tractor to the site on a truck.
#WATCH If I have a tractor and I set it on fire, why should it bother anyone else?: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on burning of a tractor near India Gate in Delhi by Punjab Youth Congress workers during a protest against the #FarmBills pic.twitter.com/5sb1JK6WgG
— ANI (@ANI) September 28, 2020
The group of people gathered at the spot raised slogans like “Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Amar rahe” (Long live Shaheed Bhagat Singh), and “Kisaan-Virodhi, Narendra Modi” (Anti-farmers, Narendra Modi).
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I #PunjabFarmers #KisanBill2020 l pic.twitter.com/bxM4f7plip— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) September 28, 2020
Amarinder Singh on Monday held a sit-in protest against the farm laws, passed by the Parliament.
The three farm bills passed by both the houses of the Parliament had recently received the assent of President Ram Nath Kovind. Before going for protest, the Chief Minister paid tribute to Bhagat Singh on the latter’s birth anniversary.
Protests by farmers against the three farm Bills have been ongoing since the past few days in Punjab, Haryana, along with other states in the country.
The Bills that have now become Acts are — The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Service Act, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.