Punjab Cong MLA resigns from Vidhan Sabha after LS clear Bills: ‘Black day’
Lok Sabha Thursday passed the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. It has already passed Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill.
“I do not want to continue to be in Vidhan Sabha as an elected representative on a day when Lok Sabha passes Bills that would ruin the farmers,” Kuljit Singh Nagra, Congress MLA from Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab, told The Indian Express. Hours after the Lok Sabha Thursday two key bills pertaining to farm sector, Congress MLA from Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab, Kuljit Singh Nagra resigned from the Vidhan Sabha in protest.
Lok Sabha Thursday passed the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. It has already passed Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill.
“I do not want to continue to be in Vidhan Sabha as an elected representative on a day when Lok Sabha passes Bills that would ruin the farmers,” Nagra told The Indian Express.
The MLA, who is also AICC general secretary, tweeted: “Deeply saddened by the passing of farmer Bill by the BJP-Akali Govt. I hereby tender my resignation as MLA Fatehgarh Sahib in support of farmer’s cause”.
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