Chandigarh July 18 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday sought an adjournment to the listed business of the Lok Sabha and instead discuss the serious situation arising out of the nationwide crisis which has been raging over the enactment of the three Farm Laws by the House.
Seeking the adjournment through a motion, through a letter to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the SAD MP from Bathinda Ms Harsimrat Kaur Badal said that these three Bills had been “pushed through the House in utter disregard of the opposition by the stakeholders in these Bills, that is the farmers, Khet Mazdoors and farm traders”
Ms Badal also demanded that the House include the names of the “martyrs of the farmers movement” and pay them tributes during the Obituaries. “They have laid down their lives in a peaceful, democratic movement fighting for the just cause of the farmers and the farm labourers. She said that the House must express both solidarity with the farmers as well as regret the hardships faced and sacrifices made by them. "This House must acknowledge their martyrdom," she added.
Ms Badal further said that the three Farm Acts were also “in brazen violation of the spirit of Federalism as envisaged by the Founding Fathers of the Constitution of the Nation, as agriculture is a state subject.”
In her letter Mrs Badal pointed to the “massive national outrage against these Bills which have since been signed into laws despite opposition by millions and millions of annadatas of the country battling severe weather and adverse market conditions just to survive at subsistence level.
"Several hundreds farmers/Mazdoors have lost their lives in this struggle against the Centre. But the Central Government has refused to show the sensitivity expected of a responsible and democratically elected government. Never in the history of free India has the country witnessed such outrage against a legislation passed by this august House.”
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