DW BUREAU / chandigarh Punjab School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Tuesday affirmed that he will be sitting on hunger strike on December 23, on the occasion of National Kisaan Diwas in protest against Modi-led union government's draconian farm laws. Singla tweeted, "On the occasion of #KisaanDiwas, I shall be sitting on a hunger strike in protest against @BJP4India Govt's unfair farm laws, in complete solidarity with our farmers & arthiyas' demands! My humble appeal to all to stand in unity against a tyrannical govt & its unjust policies!" Appealing all sections of the society to stand in unity with farmers and against a tyrannical government and its unjust policies, he said that the union government is using multipronged hypocrite tactics to scatter farmers and sections associated with farmers, but farmers' protest is day by day reaching towards its peak and will be finished only after getting their due rights. Terming Income Tax Department raids on Arthiyas of Punjab by income tax department as malicious tactics, Mr. Singla said that BJP leaders have not digesting arthiyas' full support to their brethren farmers, thus, in an unlawful manner, these raids are being carried out on behest of union government to weaken the farmer protest. "But, BJP leaders will not be succeeded in ending the generations' long relationship between the farmers and arthiyas," he emphatically said. Singla continued holding meetings with arthiyas of the state and assured them that Punjab government and Congress party firmly stood by them in this hour of need. Meanwhile, ridiculing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to refrain from indulging in politics of the lowest order and mud slinging, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh while showing mirror to the AAP Convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, made it clear that his meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was exclusively on one point agenda to discuss issues related National security being the Home Minister of the border State facing a hostile neighbour, thus it was his foremost responsibility to apprise the Union Government on developments in the State. And he would not hesitate to meet the Prime Minister and the Home Minister whenever issues of internal security are fanned by neighbouring hostile nations. Ridiculing the allegations leveled by AAP leader as absolutely baseless, politically motivated and erroneous that he met the Union Home Minister with regard to the ED cases thrust upon his family, Captain Amarinder Singh lambasted AAP for attempting to unleash a campaign based on lies and deceit. He clarified that there was no case filed by the Enforcement Directorate against him. There was, however, a case filed by ED against his son, S. Raninder Singh which has been going on for more than a decade that too under FEMA which at most is a civil/ fiscal matter. The High court has also stayed all the earlier incorrect Income Tax assessment orders served on his son. As a measure of desperation, the IT Department has now vindictively targeted him, along with his whole family and not even left out his minor grandchildren by sending them notices under the Prevention of Black Money Act which were also being legally dealt with. The Chief Minister said that only a political novice and no do-gooder like Kejriwal could jump to such conclusions whereas the real picture is starkly different from what is being painted by Delhi CM who should not cross the limits of decency. In view of the widely reported developments in the media today, such as seizure of 11 Arges-84 hand grenades dropped on the night of 19th-20th December by a drone launched from Pakistan five days after they busted a drone module with international linkages in Amritsar (Rural) district, it was his bounden duty to apprise the Union Government about it so as to enable the State and Central security agencies to work in tandem in formulating a concrete strategy to foil the nefarious designs of Pakistan which always posed a major threat to state law and order as well as country's integrity and sovereignty added Captain Amarinder Singh. The Chief Minister said that numerous such incidents actually go unreported in the media as they are not made public to avoid creating panic among the populace. (editor@dailyworld.in)