British Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Thursday asked the United Kingdom’s Parliament to hold a debate on farm laws, saying that an online petition in this regard has gained over 1 lakh signatures. Online petitions require over a lakh signatures to be taken up for a debate in the Parliament, according to Outlook.
Dhesi said that over 100 MPs wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention in the farmers’ protests. “Well over 1,00,000 constituents have signed a petition, incredibly from every single one of the 650 UK constituencies, including more than 3,000 signatories from my Slough constituency,” he said.
Citing the online petition as well as the arrest of peaceful protestors and human rights activists, such as activist Nodeep Kaur, the British MP asked the Leader of the House to facilitate a debate on the matter. Kaur, a member of the Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan, was arrested on January 12. She had participated in the farm law…