CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday lashed out at the central government and said that they should abandon their stubbornness and open their way for talk with the farmers organization.

He also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned him that if he can stop the war between Russia and Ukraine, then why can't he talk to the breadwinners sitting 200 kilometers away?

Taking to social media X, the Punjab Chief Minister wrote in a post "The central government should abandon its old stubbornness and open the way for talks with the farmers' organizations... A cat does not run away when a pigeon winks.. I don't know what penance the central government is doing now?? If Modi ji can stop the war between Russia and Ukraine, then can't he talk to the breadwinners sitting 200 kilometers away? What time are you waiting for..?"

Earlier today, the Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Awadhesh Prasad had accused the Bharatiya Janata Party led central government of preventing farmers from marching to Delhi in order to hide it's shortcomings and incompetencies.