Chandigarh, August 28
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha today passed a resolution moved by CM Amarinder Singh, rejecting the Centre's farm ordinances and the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020. No Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) legislator was present in the House that sought a fresh ordinance ensuring foodgrain procurement at the minimum support price (MSP) and continued procurement by the FCI.
The resolution will be sent to both Houses of Parliament. Amid objections by AAP to restrictions placed on the entry of its members on the "pretext" of the Covid-19 pandemic, the truncated three-hour session saw 55 of the total 117 members participating in the legislative business. Moving the resolution, the Chief Minister said whether river waters or the MSP, the Centre's actions were clearly against the interests of the state. "The motive is to pass the control of agriculture into private hands," he said, even as he targeted SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal for "misleading" farmers on agricultural reforms.
BJP MLA Dinesh Babbu argued that there was no clause to stop the MSP and farmers were being misled. Kultar Singh Sandhwan (AAP) said the Akalis must make sure that MSP clause stayed in the ordinances. Rebel AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhu said instead of the ordinances, a Bill should have been brought and the affected states taken on board. — TNS
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