The former partner stormed out of the Budget presentation in Parliament.
Key sentence:
- The former ally, as well as the minister, claimed it was “shameful” that perhaps the farmers had been sitting out from the cold for months.
- PM Modi said that the government was just a “phone call away” at the all-party meeting on Sunday for talks.
The Shiromani Akali Dal, the former partner at the Centre throughout the National Democratic Alliance, stormed out of the Budget presentation in Parliament by Nirmala Sitharaman about the impasse of farm rules.
Harsimrat Badal, the former minister of food supplies in the cabinets of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called it “unfortunate” because when farmers sit on their doorstep, the government is only concerned about mobile calls.
The former ally, as well as minister, claimed it was “shameful” that perhaps the farmers had been sitting out from the cold for months, but they were not mentioned either in the joint address to Parliament by President Ram Nath Kovind or even in the monthly radio program by PM Modi, Mann Ki Baat.
One hundred people died. They have been there, basically, at the doorstep hoping to be heard for three months.
I’m shocked that he’s actually waiting for a telephone call. After 11 rounds of negotiations, the need for the hour was to listen and give them guarantees that there was no more desire to die. It’s very sad that we’re still talking regarding phone calls,’ Harsimrat Badal told as per the reports.
“Unbecoming towards any parliamentarian to act in this way BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said about the Akalis’ decision to quit the presentation of a budget.
PM Modi said that the government was just a “phone call away” at the all-party meeting on Sunday for talks towards farmers who have been engaged in week-long unrest about the three farm laws.
Just after the 11th meeting among the government as well as the farm bodies, the PM, who convened the virtual meeting, alluded to the remarks of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said he was just a phone call away and also will come whenever the farmers’ leaders would like to discuss keeping the rules in abeyance.
On Friday, the inaugural day after the Budget Session, eighteen opposition leaders boycotted President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to each house of Parliament to protest towards the farm legislation.
