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(SAD boycott’s PM meeting on Covid in protest against use of brute majority to block adjournment motion moved by party to demand repeal of the three agri laws)
Chandigarh, July 20 2021 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said it was a shame that injustice was being done unto farmers by the Prime Minister of the country and said PM Narendra Modi should not stand on ego and adopt such an intransigent attitude towards the ‘annadaata’.
Speaking to newsmen outside parliament after forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal said “it is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to listen to the grievances of farmers and resolve them. Farmers have been protesting on the borders of Delhi for months but the government is impervious to their suffering. Such an attitude does not bode well for a healthy democracy”.
Holding placards stating ‘sharam karo, desh ke annadaata ka apmaan band karo’, SAD-BSP mps including BSP general secretary Satish Mishra and former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the NDA government had used its brutal majority to disallow the adjournment motion moved by the party to hold a discussion demanding repeal of the three agricultural laws. The SAD President said it was because of this that the party decided to boycott the meeting held by the Prime Minister to review the Covid pandemic.
Mr Sukhbir Badal also showed a placard to union agriculture minister Narender Singh Tomar reading ‘their hard work deserves appreciation, government giving them humiliation”. He was accompanied by senior mps Balwinder Singh Bhundur and Naresh Gujral all of whom demanded the black laws be repealed immediately.
Speaking on the occasion, Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the SAD was the only party which had consistently protested against the three agricultural laws both inside and outside parliament. She said even yesterday the Congress party did not raise the issue of farmers making it clear that like the NDA government it too was bent on insulting the ‘annadaata’. Mrs Badal said the SAD on its part would continue to raise the issue of farmers. “We filed an adjournment motion both yesterday and today. We will use other means also to raise this sensitive issue to ensure the voice of farmers is heard in parliament”.
Meanwhile the SAD-BSP mps said it was unfortunate that the NDA government was not ready to recognize the sacrifices of farmers and had even refused to pay tribute to the more than 500 martyrs of the agitation. They condemned the efforts being made to defame and suppress the peaceful movement and said the union government should not act in the interest of corporations who wanted to corporatize the agricultural sector. “The agricultural laws are also against the spirit of a federal India as envisaged by the founding fathers of the constitution”, they added.
