BJP National TV Spokesperson Dr. Jitendra Singh-Scoop News
Jammu, August 03 (Scoop News )-BJP has taken strong exception to CPI(M)’s Brinda Karat’s malicious statement alleging that Narendra Modi’s regime in Gujarat has been anti-Sikh and described it as a distortion of facts because the decision to freeze agricultural accounts of Sikh farmers, referred by Karat, is based on a circular issued by the then Congress government in Gujarat in 1973.
After a briefing from the BJP central leadership, Party’s National Executive Member & National TV Spokesperson Dr. Jitendra Singh released to the media here today a detailed note to explain that this controversy has been deliberately raked up in the election season as an attempt to falsely target Narendra Modi by vested interest groups.
It may be recalled that a section of print media had on 30th July 2013 quoted a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) – Ajaib Singh – as stating that “Modi, who has the habit of terrorizingthe minorities of Gujarat, was in this case victimizing the Sikhfarmers.”
The note released by Dr Jitendra Singh said that the use of the words “terrorizing” and “victimizing” in Ajaib Singh’s tour report is irresponsible, malicious, deliberate and politically motivated. His report is not even yet on the NCM website. The fact that Ajaib Singh of the NCM has somehow shown Modi as the creator and villain
of this system is shameful and incendiary. It is clearly unbecoming of the position he holds in a Commission that is supposed to be above any sort of politics.
Additionally, Smt. Brinda Karat of CPI (M) stated that Modi has “occupied land of Punjabi farmers in Gujarat”. This is also an irresponsible statement, which deliberately distorts facts.
It is useful to understand the factual backdrop and legal issues involved in this issue. As a general rule, under land laws that apply to Gujarat, agricultural land cannot be purchased by ‘non-agriculturists’. An ‘agriculturist’ is defined as a “person who cultivates land personally.”
Under a GoG circular dated 04.04.1973, if an out-of-state agriculturist (say, a farmer from Punjab) buys agricultural land in Gujarat, he ……..
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