"Wrong To Put Farmers In Jail": AAP Government Rejects Centre's Proposal
NDTV
As thousands of farmers march towards Delhi for a mega protest, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has rejected the Centre's proposal to turn a stadium into a temporary jail to confine them. The Arvind Kejriwal government has said the farmers' demands are genuine and added that every citizen has the right to peaceful protest.
"The demands of the farmers are genuine. Secondly, it is the Constitutional right of every citizen to make a peaceful protest. It is, therefore, incorrect to arrest the farmers," Delhi home minister Kailash Gehlot has said in a reply to the Centre's proposal to convert the Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Bawana into a temporary jail to detain the protesting farmers.
"The Central Government, in fact, should invite them over for talks and try to find a solution of their genuine problems. Farmers of the country are our 'annadata' and treating them in this way by arresting them would be like rubbing salt into their wounds. We cannot be a party to this decision of the Central Government," the minister added.
