AAP MPs Sanjay Singh and Bhagwat Mann raised slogans inside the Central Hall of Parliament.
New Delhi:
Two parliamentarians from the Aam Aadmi Party shouted slogans inside the Central Hall of Parliament against the agricultural laws. The commotion erupted when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was offering his tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 96th birthday.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh tweeted a video showing him and his party colleague, Bhagwat Mann, raising slogans against the farm laws and holding protest signs inside the Central Hall. “Withdraw the ‘black laws’ against farmers,” says one of them.
Several other MPs were seen in the video as Prime Minister Modi finished paying tribute to Mr. Vajpayee before his portrait. PM Modi was seen leaving after interacting with some other leaders. The two AAP parliamentarians, meanwhile, continued to shout slogans.
“The parliament session has not been convened. We have not been given the opportunity to speak to the prime minister or to communicate our points to him. Today, during the program in the Central Hall, party deputy Aam Aamdi, Bhagwat Mann, and I call for the withdrawal of the “black law”. Thousands of farmers are protesting. The new agricultural laws are in the hands of the industrialists and against the farmers. We support the agitation. Our call to the Prime Minister is to withdraw all three ” “black laws”, Sanjay Singh told NDTV.
Mann, the Sangrur MP from Punjab, tweeted in Hindi: “Pro-farmer slogans echoed in the Central Hall to open the eyes and closed ears of the Modi (sic) government.”
Opposition parties, which tried to block agricultural bills in parliament in September, had previously asked President Ram Nath Kovind not to sign them. The bills, they had said, were passed in the Rajya Sabha in an undemocratic manner. However, the president had consented to all three bills.
On Thursday, a small group of congressional leaders, led by Rahul Gandhi, introduced me to the President and presented a memorandum requesting his intervention for the withdrawal of the farm laws.
Thousands of farmers, who have defied water cannons, tear gas and police barricades, began their protest last month against the farm laws, aimed at ending middlemen and allowing them to sell products anywhere in the country. Farmers say the laws will deprive them of minimum prices set by the government and leave them at the mercy of companies.
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