After refusal to discuss farm legal guidelines, Cong., Akali MPs walk out of Standing Committee meeting
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Chairman of Committee on Agriculture turned down request to discuss affect of new laws
Congress MPs Partap Singh Bajwa and Chhaya Verma, and Akali chief Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Monday walked out of a meeting of the Standing Committee on Agriculture after the panel chairman refused to discuss Centre’s three farm legal guidelines and their affect together with the continuing protests.
“Earlier today, Smt. Chhaya Verma, S. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and I walked out in protest from the Standing Committee on Agriculture Meeting due to the refusal of the Chairman to discuss the 3 farmer acts and resultant issues. As a Standing Committee on Agriculture a part of the Parliament of India, such issues should be discussed to ensure that MPs can scrutinise and understand how the Government is handling issues. It is disappointing that this is not allowed,” Mr Bajwa mentioned on Twitter.
The three Rajya Sabha MPs raised the problem with the chairman of the standing committee after citing the continuing large-scale protests by completely different farmer unions that has resulted in hundreds of farmers tenting on the borders of Delhi for over 40 days in protest towards the three farm legal guidelines.
BJP MP and panel chairman P.C. Gaddigoudar, nevertheless, didn’t permit the members to “deviate” from the pre-fixed agenda, ensuing within the walkout by three members.
The agenda of the meeting was to take notice of the proof of the representatives of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy on the “status of Veterinary Services and Availability of Animal Vaccine in the Country”.
