{"id":12959,"date":"2025-03-20T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/?p=12959"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:19:10","slug":"congress-betrayed-farmers-and-punjab-for-decades-raj-kumar-chabbewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/?p=12959","title":{"rendered":"Congress Betrayed Farmers and Punjab For Decades: Raj Kumar Chabbewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, March 20-\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raj Kumar Chabbewal has strongly criticized Congress for its alleged hypocrisy towards farmers, calling their recent protest in Lok Sabha mere &#8220;crocodile tears&#8221; and a desperate attempt to appear pro-Punjab.<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Chabbewal\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\" data-wsc-id=\"m8hfqplu1x3cb95fw\">Chabbewal<\/span>\u00a0accused Congress of neglecting farmers during its decades in power, failing to implement the Swaminathan Commission&#8217;s recommendations or provide legal guarantees for Minimum Support Price (MSP). &#8220;Congress&#8217;s failures have forced farmers into prolonged struggles, leading to over 800 deaths during the farmers&#8217; movement,&#8221; he said.\u00a0He also slammed Congress for not addressing farmers\u2019 issues meaningfully in the last eight months, despite having significant parliamentary strength. &#8220;Congress&#8217;s drama in Parliament is nothing more than a publicity stunt,&#8221; Chabbewal remarked.<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Chabbewal\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\" data-wsc-id=\"m8hfqpp6nmp6p03h8\">Chabbewal<\/span>\u00a0criticized Congress for leaving Punjab in financial turmoil, pointing out their mistake which stopped Punjab&#8217;s Rural Development Fund (RDF) and Market Development Fund (MDF). &#8220;AAP&#8217;s Punjab Government had to clear the dues Congress ignored, including compensating the families of martyrs from the farmers&#8217; movement,&#8221; he added.\u00a0Highlighting AAP\u2019s pro-people governance under CM\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Bhagwant\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\" data-wsc-id=\"m8hfq90sg6y6hdeug\">Bhagwant<\/span>\u00a0Mann, Chabbewal noted the government\u2019s efforts against drugs, corruption, and unemployment. &#8220;While AAP is delivering employment and ensuring peace in Punjab, Congress opposes progress for political gains,&#8221; he said.Chabbewal concluded by urging Congress to introspect its legacy of betrayal and stop misleading farmers. &#8220;After 70 years of failure, Congress has no moral authority to shed crocodile tears. Punjab needs real solutions, not theatrics,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, March 20-\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raj Kumar Chabbewal has strongly criticized Congress for its alleged hypocrisy towards farmers, calling their recent protest in Lok Sabha mere &#8220;crocodile tears&#8221; and a desperate attempt to appear pro-Punjab.Chabbewal\u00a0accused Congress of neglecting farmers during its decades in power, failing to implement the Swaminathan Commission&#8217;s recommendations or provide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udaypunjab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}