Union Minister Raosaheb Danve on Wednesday alleged that China and Pakistan were behind the widespread protests by farmers against the new farm laws.
A day after Union Minister Raosaheb Danve's comments on the massive farmer protests on highways outside Delhi, Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha member and chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut took a dig at the ruling BJP government.
Sanjay Raut said, "If a Union Minister has information that China and Pakistan have a hand behind the farmers' agitation, then the Defence Minister should immediately conduct a surgical strike on China and Pakistan. The President, Prime Minister, Home Minister and Chiefs of the Armed Forces should discuss this issue seriously."
Raut added, "The Shiv Sena takes this statement of the Union minister seriously. Now, it is the responsibility of the central government to teach the two neighbouring countries a lesson."
Union Minister Raosaheb Danve on Wednesday had alleged that China and Pakistan were behind the widespread protests by farmers against the three new farm laws.
Speaking at the inauguration of a health centre in Maharashtra's Jalna district, the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs said, "The agitation that is going on is not that of farmers. China and Pakistan have a hand behind this. Muslims in this country were incited first. What was said (to them)? That NRC is coming, CAA is coming and Muslims will have to leave this country in six months. Did a single Muslim leave?”
"Those efforts didn't succeed and now farmers are being told that they will face losses. This is the conspiracy of other countries," he added.
A prominent Sikh body, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, has condemned these remarks.
"Farmers have been sitting peacefully and the government has failed to deliver justice. The farmers who themselves fight and die for the nation, grow food and whose children too martyr themselves for the nation, don't try to paint them anti-national," the group's president S Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in a video message on Wednesday.
Calling the insinuation 'shameful', he said the government's ministers and spokespersons had been making such allegations.
Thousands of farmers across the country, especially those from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting for two weeks against laws that they fear will take away their guaranteed earnings and leave them at the mercy of big corporates. The government yesterday offered to amend the laws but the farmers want them scrapped altogether.
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