Jannanayak Janata Party’s Karnal district President Inderjit Singh Goraya on Tuesday quit the party in solidarity with the farmers protesting against the new agriculture laws, reported PTI. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jannayak Janata Party are coalition partners in the state.
“The stir against these farm laws has become a people’s movement but the Centre is not accepting the farmers’ demand to repeal them,” Goraya said. “Thousands of farmers are protesting for the past 70 days at various Delhi border points against these laws. I am a farmer first and I decided to resign from my post and quit the party to stand with them.”
Goraya added that he saw no point in staying with a party which has failed to ensure the welfare of farmers, according to The Indian Express.
The politician said he had asked JJP leader and Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala to exert pressure on the Narendra Modi government to roll back the “anti-farmer laws”….