New Delhi, Nov 4 : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday questioned the timing of the various notices issued by the Enforcement Department (ED) and the Income Department to him and his family members ever since the state passed its amendment Bills to negate the impact of the Central farm laws.
Responding to a question during an informal media interaction at Jantar Mantar after his dharna, the Chief Minister said that besides the ED notice to his son Raninder, notices from the I-T had been received by him and his wife Preneet Kaur.
Even his two granddaughters, one of them a law student and another preparing for her engagement, as well as a teenage grandson had not been spared and had received notices, he disclosed.
“I don’t know what to say on these except that the timing of these notices is suspect, since all of them have been issued by the Central agencies after his government initiated and got the farm amendment Bills passed in the Vidhan Sabha,” said Amarinder Singh.
Trashing allegations of ‘urban naxalism’ against the agitating farmers, the Chief Minister rejected charges of his government instigating the farmers to protest.
He termed their agitation a reaction to the actions of the Central government, which had attacked their livelihood.
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