Farmers Movement Archive

AAP to move resolution on farm ordinances, Electricity Bill

Chandigarh: During the one-day session of Punjab Assembly on August 28, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will move a resolution against the three farm ordinances and also the Electricity Amendment Bill-2020. Party’s Sunam MLA Aman Arora has sought permission from speaker Rana K P Singh to table a motion in this regard under Rule 71 of the Vidhan Sabha Rules during the session. Arora said the three agriculture ordinances and the Power Amendment Bill pushed by the Centre were contrary to the federal structure of the country, besides impinging on the rights of the states. He said the farmers would be left at the mercy of big corporate houses and the rural economy of Punjab would go for a toss if the ordinances were implemented. Similarly, if the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 became a law, the entire gamut would go into the hands of big corporate houses and different rates of electricity would be charged from rural and urban consumers, with the powers vested with State Electricity Regulatory Commission would go to the Centre, and the state government would not be able to protect its own interests. He said the anti-farm move would indirectly hit the farmers, traders, urban, laboring consumers of the state.

The Times of India

2020-08-25

Chandigarh