DW BUREAU / SANGRUR The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab, taking a serious note of the derogatory remarks being directed by the leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress and some other people at farmers who are currently fighting for their survival, said it was unbecoming on the part of those behind this false propaganda. Addressing media persons here today, state unit President and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann said that ever since the farmers started their agitation against the new farm laws enacted by the union government, some political leaders and others had been spreading false propaganda against the farmers, painting them as terrorists and anti-national. The AAP MP said that the false and frivolous propaganda against the farmers, who were agitating against the three agriculture marketing laws in this biting cold, was unbecoming on the part of those behind the propaganda. Mann further said that the AAP stood rock solid behind the farmers' movement from the beginning, the AAP has decided to extend free legal assistance to the farmers in slapping defamation cases against those behind the false propaganda against the farmers and would extend all possible help to them in consultation with the party lawyers. Mann said that so far more than 26 farmers had lost their lives while protesting to save their lands and livelihood from corporate houses, Adanis and Ambanis, adding that "It is unfortunate that the 'annadata' who fed people of the country was on a hunger strike today on the occasion of Farmers' Day while the ruthlessly insensitive government was unmoved by the pitiable plight of the farming fraternity." Taking a swipe at the Prime Minister, Bhagwant Mann said that today when the farmers of the country were agitating for their rights on the Delhi borders, he (PM Narendra Modi) was acting as a mediator of corporate houses and peddling lies about the farmers genuine demands. Mann added that the union government was misleading the people of the country by spreading rumours about the farmers and their ongoing struggle, instead of taking an urgent call on their demands, adding that the Modi government should abandon its stubborn stance and accede to the demands and immediately reverse the draconian laws aimed at benefiting the corporate houses. (editor@dailyworld.in)