Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad met President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday and requested him to withhold his approval to the Centre’s contentious farm bills. The meeting came amid Opposition parties’ boycott of the Parliament in protest against the way the Centre passed the bills.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, Azad said that the bills had been passed in an unconstitutional manner. “There was no division of votes, no voice voting,” he said. “Constitutional procedures were flouted in the temple of democracy.”
He added: “Farmers would only have benefitted from the bills had they been sent to a select committee. In the Rajya Sabha, Opposition parties gave five resolutions against the ordinance. Two MPs moved a motion to send it to a select committee. We all supported the motion.”
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