“I haven’t come here as CM but as a ‘sevadar’. Farmers are in trouble today, we should stand with them,” Mr Kejriwal said at the protest site.
New Delhi| Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today visited the Delhi-Haryana border at Singhu, where thousands of farmers are protesting against the controversial farm laws. The Delhi CM also checked for arrangements made for farmers by his government.
Mr Kejriwal was accompanied by his Cabinet ministers and some party MLAs during the brief visit to the protest site.
“We support all demands of farmers. Their issue and demands are valid. My party and I have stood with them from the very beginning. At the beginning of their protests, Delhi Police had sought permission to convert nine stadiums into jails. I was pressurised but didn’t permit,” said Arvind Kejriwal, who’s the first CM of state to visit the protest site.
“Our party, MLAs and leaders have been serving farmers as ‘sevadars’ (volunteer) ever since. I haven’t come here as CM but as a ‘sevadar’. Farmers are in trouble today, we should stand with them. AAP supports December 8th Bharat Bandh, party workers will participate in it across the nation,” he further added.
He’s also one of the several opposition leaders who’ve supported the Bharat bandh call given by farmers for Tuesday.
“The AAP “fully supports” the bandh,” Mr Kejriwal had said earlier.
“The Aam Aadmi Party fully supports the ‘Bharat Bandh‘ call. There is an appeal to all countrymen that everyone should support the farmers and participate in it,” Mr Kejriwal had tweeted.
Along with Tamil Nadu’s DMK and Telangana’s ruling TRS, the Congress, Bengal’s ruling Trinamool, the RJD, the Samajwadi Party and several Left groups have all backed the farmers’ bandh call.
Prem Singh Bhangu, the President of the All India Kisan Federation, said on Saturday: “It will be an emphatic ‘Bharat Bandh‘ on December 8.” The Bharatiya Kisan Union’s Harwinder Singh Lakhwal said the “Bharat bandh” will also see farmers blocking national highways and occupying toll plazas, PTI reported.
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