WITH POLLS looming in Bihar, the JD(U) appears to have taken a calibrated approach to the contentious farm Bills. The BJP’s senior NDA ally in the state Wednesday welcomed passage of the Bills in Parliament but said that it supports the demand of various farmers’ organisations for a law that makes payment below the MSP a punishable offence.
Speaking to The Indian Express, former Rajya Sabha MP and JD(U) principal general secretary K C Tyagi said: “We welcome the passage of both the Bills in Parliament. Our party supported these Bills. But we also support the demand by farmers’…