Senior congressional leader P Chidambaram lashed out at the center on Tuesday for the bill to repeal three agricultural laws passed in Parliament on Monday without any discussion on this issue.
The former federal minister said in a series of tweets: “On the eve of the parliamentary meeting, the prime minister proposed to debate ‘any issues’. On the first day, the first business, the farm bill was repealed without debate!”
Chidambaram said that the farm law was passed without debate and was repealed without debate. “Long live parliamentary democracy without debate!” he also wrote on the Weibo website.
Chidambaram also accused Federal Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar for denying that the bill was being debated. Tomar proposed the 2021 Agricultural Law Repeal Bill in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. On Monday, he said that there is no need to debate because the opposition party has been seeking to repeal the agricultural law, and the central government has done it.
Several congressional leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Randeep Surjewala and other opposition parties criticized the center for not discussing the passage of the Agricultural Law Repeal Act of 2021.
Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter on Monday that if there is a debate, the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party must be held responsible for not providing a minimum support price (MSP), which resulted in 700 deaths. Protest against farmers and “conspiracy to sell the agricultural sector on the altar of crony friends”.
Rahul Gandhi has always been the sharpest political critic of agricultural laws. He claimed on Monday that repealing these laws without parliamentary debate indicated that the center was “afraid” to discuss it and knew what it did wrong.
Since the second day of the parliamentary winter meeting will begin in a few hours, the 14 opposition parties, including Congress, may consider boycotting the entire meeting until December 23.
News Source : Hindustan Times
