New Delhi:The farmers bill is being strongly opposed by the farmers as well as the opposition in the country. Meanwhile, the Modi government has suffered a major setback. BJP’s ally Shiromani Akali Dal has parted ways with the NDA to protest against the Farms Bill.
“The highest decision-making body of the Shiromani Akali Dal core committee at its emergency meeting here tonight decided unanimously to pull out of the BJP -led NDA alliance,” said Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Badal said that the decision was taken because of the centre’s stubborn refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect assured marketing of farmers crops on MSP (Minimum Support Price) and its continued insensitivity to Punjabi and Sikh issues like excluding Punjabi language as official language in Jammu and Kashmir.
Akalis will continue to stand by its core principles of peace, communal harmony and guard the interest of Punjab and Punjabis and Sikhs and farmers in particular. The decision has been taken in consultation with the people of Punjab, especially party workers and farmers, Badal said.
The lone Union Minister of Akali Dal in the BJP-led NDA government Harsimrat Kaur Badal had resigned from the cabinet mark protest against the farm bills.
Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal had earlier said in the Lok Sabha that Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Minister for Food Processing, will resign in protest as the government tabled two more farm-sector related bills in the lower house amid widespread protests by farmers in Punjab and Haryana.
After the resignation, the pressure was mounted on another BJP’s partner in Haryana Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) to resign on the farmers’ issue.
