AMRITSAR: Reacting to his expulsion from the party, Anil Joshi who was in Batala on Saturday said Punjab’s prosperity was due to farmers, and being politicians they ask for votes from every person including farmers and it was their duty to stand by them when they needed them most.
Anil Joshi said "I am Punjabi and I will work for Punjab. I have openwd my mouth in favour of farmers. "
“Over five hundred farmers have lost their lives during the ongoing framers struggle in Delhi and all the political parties and even different organizations have been supporting the frames but we stood against them, ” Anil Joshi said.
He said he didn’t favor repealing the three farm laws but wanted the government to resolve the farmers issue amicably and through the process of dialogue
When asked about his explosion, he replied “They didn’t understand my point, thanks to them, I have given 35 years of my life to the party and also suffered attacks, I didn’t allow Congressmen to burn the effigy of late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee” he added.
He wonders that the party had brought an end to his service with a single stroke of pen because he stood by the farmersinstead questioned the people who had expelled him. "Ashwani Sharma is junior to me, he contested twice, I contested three times and won twice and became a minister, ” he said adding that he knew very well how to accommodate workers across the state
Former Punjab minister and BJP leader Anil Joshi said he never spoke against the Centre’s farm laws and asked State party chief Ashwani Sharma if it is indiscipline to talk about farmers.
In his two-page reply to a show-cause notice issued by the Punjab BJP for his “anti-party” activities, Mr. Joshi asserted that he always spoke about the party’s interests.
“I neither spoke against the Centre’s farm laws nor against Central leaders, ” wrote Mr. Joshi in his reply, adding that he is a “committed party