Twelve major Opposition parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Left parties, Samajwadi Party (SP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Sunday extended their support to a countrywide protest call given by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha on May 26, marking six months of the farmers protest against the Centre’s Farm Laws. In a joint statement issued by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, NCP Chief Shared Pawar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, M.K. Stalin and Hemant Soren said that the Centre must stop being obdurate and immediately resume talks. The three Farm Laws were passed by the Parliament in September last and were later made a law after Presidential assent.
This post was published on May 25, 2021 3:35 pm