Meghalaya governor Satya Pal Malik calls PM ‘very arrogant’

TIL Desk/National/Haryana/ Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has said the Centre will have to work with honesty to withdraw cases registered against farmers during the agri laws protest and give a legal framework to MSP for crops.

The farmers’ agitation has only been suspended, and if there is any injustice, it will start again, he told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri where he was honoured by the Phogat Khap.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge shared a video of the statement Malik made at the event in Haryana on Twitter, in which Malik can be heard saying, “When I went to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the farmers’ issue recently, he says he ended up fighting with the PM, who was “very arrogant”, within five minutes.

“He (the PM) was very arrogant. When I told him that 500 of our own farmers had died, he asked, ‘Did they die for me?'” Kharge on Twitter wrote, “Meghalaya’s Governor Sri Satya Pal Malik is on record saying PM was ‘arrogant’ on the issue of Farmers & HM Amit Shah called the PM as ‘mad’. Constitutional authorities speaking about each other with such contempt! Narendra Modiji is this true?”

Malik also told the crowd at Haryana, “The government will have to work with honesty to withdraw the cases against the farmers and give a legal framework (guarantee) on MSP. This is the government’s responsibility,” he said in response to a question.