Punjab AAP MLAs said they would spend the night at the assembly in protest of the farm bill
Chandigarh:
Deputies from the opposition party Aam Aadmi spent the night at the state legislative assembly building in protest against the government of Captain Amarinder Singh for not sharing a draft of a new law on agriculture.
In the images, the MLAs are seen sitting cross-legged in the meeting building facilities. They demanded that the congressional government share with them the draft copy of the bill that will be presented in the assembly on Tuesday.
Several AAP MLAs had sat in the house well as of Monday night, demanding copies of the bill.
Punjab seeks to counter the effects of the new agricultural laws of the center at the state level by using state laws as much as possible.
“The AAP will support legislation against farm laws, but the government should provide us with their copies. We don’t have copies of other bills as well. How can our legislators discuss and debate important issues?” Opposition leader and AAP leader Harpal Cheema, reported the PTI news agency.
Shiromani Akali Dal, who recently left the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the center’s farm laws, said the bill should have been introduced in the assembly on Monday.
Punjab MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu also attended the assembly session for the first time since his resignation from the state cabinet last year.
On his YouTube channel, Sidhu described the agricultural laws of the center as a “brutal attack” on the federal structure.
He asked for a minimum guaranteed support price and the purchase of crops by the government. The congressional leader said the center talks about doubling the income of farmers, but is taking away the only guaranteed income.
“These black laws are a brutal attack on the federal structure of India. They influence the democratic powers of the people of Punjab vested in the state government … to legislate on the issue of agriculture that is on the state list,” said Sidhu .
The three controversial farm bills that were at the center of a major political storm and cost the ruling BJP its alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal, became law on September 29 with the signing of President Ram Nath Kovind.
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