{"id":11152,"date":"2020-10-21T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2020-10-21T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:05:21","slug":"are-you-with-farmers-or-against-them-capt-amarinder-asks-kejriwal-after-latter-questions-punjabs-amendments-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/?p=11152","title":{"rendered":"`ARE YOU WITH FARMERS OR AGAINST THEM?\u2019 CAPT AMARINDER ASKS KEJRIWAL AFTER LATTER QUESTIONS PUNJAB\u2019S AMENDMENTS BILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TAKING JIBE AT DELHI CM, SAYS CAN\u2019T BLAME HIM AS HE\u2019S NOT REALLY RUNNING A STATE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TELLS HIM TO READ CONSTITUTION WHICH ALLOWS STATES TO SEEK AMENDMENT TO CENTRAL LAWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandigarh, October 21:- \u201cAre you with the farmers or against them,\u201d Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, after the latter questioned the legality of the state\u2019s amendment Bills passed in the Vidhan Sabha yesterday without bothering to check the constitutional and legal provisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Reacting to Kejriwal\u2019s tweet raising doubts about the effectiveness of the amendment Bills passed unanimously in the Punjab Assembly, Captain Amarinder said it smacked of total ignorance on the part of the Delhi chief minister. It was a different matter that he could not blame Kejriwal for such ignorance considering that Delhi is not really a state, as a result of which its chief minister did not know the legal nitty-gritties of running a state, he quipped, taking a jibe at Kejriwal\u2019s lack of knowledge on matters concerning states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          However, the Punjab Chief Minister said he did expect Kejriwal to do some home-work before rushing to react to his remarks, \u2018that were made in interest of farmers, who I thought you might have some concern for.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The Chief Minister further said he thought the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader knew his Constitution, which clearly says that u\/Article 254 (II) states can seek amendment to central laws for local & contextual needs, as has been done in many cases, especially in CPC & CrPC laws. \u201cMaybe you could check it (the Constitutional provision) now!,\u201d he told Kejriwal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Captain Amarinder said instead of questioning his government\u2019s Bills, it would be better for Kejriwal to \u201cget out of your IT mindset\u201d and ask AAP\u2019s Punjab unit to back the state government in its fight for the rights of the farmers, unless their support to our Bills was just a fa\u00e7ade. \u201cThe ball is in your court – are you with farmers or against them?, he asked Kejriwal, challenging him to come out with a categorical stand on the issue of Punjab amendment Bills, which AAP MLAs in the state had backed in the Assembly but had criticised outside the House to expose their double standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TAKING JIBE AT DELHI CM, SAYS CAN’T BLAME HIM AS HE’S NOT REALLY RUNNING A STATE TELLS HIM TO READ CONSTITUTION WHICH ALLOWS STATES TO SEEK AMENDMENT TO CENTRAL LAWS Chandigarh, October 21:- “Are you with the farmers or against them,” Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,3,4,1],"tags":[2191,1166],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-covid-19","category-india","category-punjab","category-news","tag-arvind-kejriwal","tag-captain-amrinder-singh-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}