Following Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Haryana Deputy Minister Dushyant Chautala also accused Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday of misleading Punjab farmers by passing agricultural bills in the assembly. state.
“I request the Chief Minister of Punjab not to mislead the farmers. If they have to bring a law, then they should have brought it for crops produced on a large scale by farmers, which are sold at a price lower than the minimum support price (MSP) in the market, ”Chautala told reporters.
Yesterday, a war of words began between Kejriwal and Amarinder Singh, after the Prime Minister of Delhi responded to a tweet from CMO Punjab in which the Prime Minister of Punjab accused both the Aam Aadmi Party and Shiromani Akali Dal of “double standard ”.
Kejriwal and Amarinder Singh criticized each other on Twitter for the agricultural bills passed by the Punjab assembly, and the Delhi CM accused the Punjab CM of “acting out a drama” and “misleading the people”.
Punjab’s Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution rejecting three agricultural laws enacted by the central government as well as the electricity amendment bill, and the prime minister led a delegation to the governor, Vice President Singh Badnore, urging him to give his consent to three bills approved by the assembly. .
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Punjab is the first state to reject the three agricultural laws that were enacted after the approval of the relevant bills in the parliament session during the monsoon last month.
The assembly approved three bills “unanimously” to “protect the MSP and control grain hoarding.”
The House also passed by voice vote an amendment to the CrPC to exempt farmers from allotment of land up to 2.5 acres.
The assembly passed the Farmers Agreement (Empowerment and Protection) Bill on Price Guarantee and Agricultural Services (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment), 2020, the Agricultural Products Trade and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill (Punjab Special Provisions and Amendment), 2020 and Essential Commodities Bill (Punjab Special Provisions and Amendment), 2020.
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