A delegation from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) met with President Ram Nath Kovid on Monday to ask him not to approve the agricultural bills passed by Rajya Sabha (or Upper House of Parliament) on Sunday.
These bills have already been approved by the Lok Sabha and await the approval of the president before becoming law.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with Kovind, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said the party’s delegation asked the president not to sign the “anti-farmers” bills that were passed “by force” in Rajya Sabha. “We asked him to return the bills to parliament,” the ANI news agency was quoted as saying.
Badal had said on Saturday that there can be no talks with the Center until the 2020 Bill on Trade in Agricultural Products and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation), and the 2020 Price Guarantee and Agricultural Services Agreement for the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection). back.
On Sunday, he said the approval of the bills marked a “sad day” for democracy and millions in the country.
“Urging the President of India not to sign the agricultural bills and return them to #Parliament for reconsideration. Please intervene on behalf of the farmers, workers, arhtiyas, mandi labor and dalits, or you will never forgive us, ”the SAD leader said in a statement on Twitter shortly after Rajya Sabha passed two of the three bills.
“Democracy means consensus, not majority oppression,” he added.
Furthermore, in line with her party’s dissent on the bills, SAD leader and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had resigned from her post on Thursday after the bills were passed in Lok Sabha.
Aside from SAD, which is part of the NDA government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 12 opposition parties have also sought time to meet with Kovind on the agrarian bills passed by Rajya Sabha.
According to the PTI news agency, leaders of several political parties including Congress, the Left parties, NCP, DMK, SP, Trinamool Congress and the RJD have requested in a memorandum to the President his intervention in the matter and asked him not to sign the bills, which will become law once the President gives them his consent.
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