DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday accused the Opposition, SAD and AAP, of adopting "brazen double standards" over the bills passed by the state assembly to counter the Centre's farm laws. Singh said the two opposition parties, the Shiromani Akali Dal and Aam Aadmi Party, despite supporting the passage of the bill inside the assembly, criticised them publicly later outside. "I am amazed that they spoke in favour of the Bills in the assembly, and even went to meet the Governor along with me, but said different things outside. This shows their brazen double standard," Singh told reporters here, after the three-day special session of the state assembly was adjourned sine die. Asked if other parties, especially AAP, which has a government in Delhi, too should bring in legislation akin to Punjab's to negate the effects of the central farm laws, Singh said Arvind Kejriwal should follow Punjab's example. out at the Opposition, he said the farmers have not said anything against the state Bills, which are designed to safeguard their interests and those of the state's agriculture. "But it is more than clear that these parties are not interested in securing the future of the farmers or protecting the state's agriculture and economy," the chief minister said, slamming the SAD and AAP for "playing to the galleries by pretending to back the Bills in the assembly". "Their lack of sincerity towards the farmers' cause have been totally exposed by their statements thereafter," he said. "If they thought we were fooling the people of Punjab, why did they not say so in the House? Why did they support and vote for our Bills?" asked Singh, reacting to SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia and AAP leadership's statements. They had both accused the chief minister of misleading the people, citing his remarks on the possibility of the Governor or President not assenting to the Bills. After backing the state Bills in the assembly, the SAD had on Tuesday sought an assurance from Amarinder Singh that the state government will procure crops at MSP if the Centre falters on it. The party's statement had come hours after the state assembly unanimously passed four Bills and adopted a resolution against the Centre's farm laws. The SAD and AAP had both backed the Bills in the assembly while the BJP, which has two MLAs in the state, stayed away from the special session called against the farm laws. (editor@dailyworld.in)