Gonda: Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said the protesting farmers should have allowed the former to reach the rally venue in Punjab’s Ferozepur to let him witness and address the “empty chairs” there.
“The people and farmers of Punjab should have allowed the PM to reach the dais. He would have felt good to see empty chairs,” Yadav said.
“He should have given a speech to empty chairs as in UP also he has empty chairs in his meetings,” he added.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister sarcastically said due to the cancellation of the public meeting at Punjab’s Ferozepur, the country was deprived of knowing why the three farm laws were brought and later withdrawn.
“At least the BJP and the PM then should have told why the three central black laws were brought and withdrawn. The country was deprived of knowing it and this is what I regret,” he said, PTI reported.
Narrating his own experience of once addressing a thin crowd of only 25 people in Jharkhand’s Koderma, the Samajwadi Party chief said that his party men held him for hours before he could give his speech.
Stating he was held because not enough people had arrived, Yadav said: “But I went and addressed 25 people.”
The Prime Minister’s Punjab visit was cut short earlier on Wednesday after a “major security lapse” as he was stranded for 20 minutes on a flyover near Piareana village, around 30 km away from the National Martyrs Memorial in Hussainiwala in Ferozepur, due to a blockade by the farmers.
He had to subsequently cancel his meeting there and return to the national capital.