Media will not show you this -- Share It Issue of Sikh farmers of Kutch is sub-judice; Gujarat government is committed to ensure no injustice done to them: Narendra Modi Narendra Modi today talked to his Punjab counterpart Prakash Singh Badal and briefed him in detail about the self-explanatory facts about Sikh farmers of the Kutch district of # Gujarat for the last several decades. Mr. # Modi despised certain vested interests trying to malign Gujarat Government by spreading canards, distorting truths by political adversaries that his government has adopted a discriminatory attitude towards the Sikh farmers from Punjab tilling land in Kucth. He said that although the issue is sub-judice his government is committed to ensure no injustice was done to the Sikh farmers over the matter of land. There is no question of sending them back to Punjab. He said that Gujarat Government is not exerting any pressure on them; rather taking all steps to make sure the Sikh community lived peacefully in Gujarat, including Kutch. He recalled that the issue was created by the then Congress government 50 years back following a ordnance and notification in 1973. This was in response to representatives of Sikh community who after personally meeting Mr. Modi at Gandhinagar yesterday evening expressed their satisfaction at the Gujarat Government’s approach. They denied newspaper reports that their lands were being usurped. They said that Sikhs were being targeted to malign the Modi Government and that they were not a party to such canards.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:56:55 +0000
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