My heart goes with farmers on R-Day: Punjab CM

Patiala (Punjab), Jan 26 : Asserting that his heart was with the farmers amid the Republic Day celebrations, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Centre had deliberately kept Punjab out of the high-powered committee initially as they knew that the voices of protest would rise from here.
He declared that “these voices will continue to rise” till the farmers’ interests are secured.
Punjab was included in the committee only after he personally wrote to the Centre on the issue, said the Chief Minister, making it clear that neither he nor his government were ever asked or consulted about the ‘black’ farm laws.
Appealing to the Prime Minister to fulfil the demands of the agitating farmers, who are sitting at Delhi’s borders for the past two months, the Chief Minister said the farm laws are “completely wrong as they are against federalism, since agriculture is a state subject under Schedule 7 of the Indian constitution”.
Unfurling the Tricolour here at Raja Bhalindra Singh sports complex here, the Chief Minister recalled the contribution of Baba Saheb B.R. Ambedkar, who had drafted the constitution which remains the bedrock of the nation’s governance till date.
Hoping that the tractor march of the farmers passed off as peacefully as their agitation so far has been, the Chief Minister said “old farmers are sitting at the borders of the national capital not for themselves but for their children and the future generations”.