Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa today called upon Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to lead an all party delegation to meet Narendra Modi for discussing the issue related to the transfer of Chandigarh to the state.
Bajwa, who is under line of fire from his own partymen in the state, said that the delegation should also take up the issue of Punjabi farmers settled in Gujarat who are being haunted by uncertainty regarding their lands, with the Prime Minister.
He said the issue of transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab has now been raised by the Punjab unit of the BJP which was part of the ruling alliance in the state and headed the governments at the centre and in Haryana.
Bajwa said Badal should get a deadline of January 26, 2015 fixed from the friendly government at the Centre as a new year gift to his state.
He said the Punjabi farmers settled in Kutch area of Gujarat continued to face uncertainty as they were under threat of being uprooted from their lands which they had turned into green-lands from wastelands through their hard labour.
He said the main hurdle was the appeal filed by the Gujarat government against the verdict from the Gujarat High Court which favoured the farmers at the time when Modi himself was the Chief Minister. The Gujarat government appealed against the High Court verdict.
Bajwa said the matter could be settled with the Gujarat government withdrawing its appeal.
