Farm front issues Peoples’ Whip to opposition MPs to fight it out in Parliament
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Farm front issues Peoples’ Whip to opposition MPs to fight it out in Parliament
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BATHINDA: The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Wednesday said it had issued the “peoples’ whip” to the parliamentarians of opposition parties, so they raise issues of farmers during the upcoming monsoon session. MPs were informed that the whip had been issued in accordance with long established constitutional right of citizens to bring any matter of general public interest relating to the work of the Union government before Parliament. Thus, MPs will be asked to heed and act upon the whip, treating it as a direct instruction of the constituents who have elected them as MPs and to whom they are constitutionally accountable. SKM said the demands of farmers included the repeal of the three farm laws enacted during Covid times and to enact a law that gave a legal guarantee of MSP on all crops to all farmers. The MPs were also directed not to walk out of the Houses which enabled the ruling party to do their business unhindered and even if the MPs were suspended by the speaker/chairman of the Houses, they should again go to the houses to oppose the Union government, said SKM.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-07-15
Coverage
Chandigarh