‘How many should die before you act?’
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Title
‘How many should die before you act?’
Description
BATHINDA: Bathinda MP and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday again hit out at the Centre for scrapping the winter session of Parliament, stating it was running away from its responsibility to resolve the grievances of farmers by not repealing the three recent farm laws. . She asked the Centre how many more farmers should be martyred before the government listened to them. She also demanded a special one-day session to repeal the laws. In a statement on Wednesday, the MP said the government knew it could not face people on the issue and that was why it had “invented” the excuse of Covid-19 to cancel thewinter session. Terming the move as murder of democracy, she said MPs had been denied an opportunity to raise a voice for farmers. “Farmers are suffering in biting cold and parliamentarians want to put pressure on the government to repeal the laws,” she said
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-12-17
Coverage
Amritsar