Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said that the three new agricultural laws that were passed in the Parliament on September 20 may have severe implications on the national economy, reported NDTV.
Badal’s comments came a day after the Shiromani Akali Dal, one of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s oldest allies, pulled out of the National Democratic Alliance.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday evening gave his assent to the three farm bills that were passed amid scenes of pandemonium last week.
“The farmers’ economic plight affects the entire economy,” Badal said at a gathering of party workers and farmers at Ropar, Hoshiarpur and Phagwara in Punjab. “Anything like the new farm bills [now Act], which increases the uncertainty about the fate of farmers’ produce can have disastrous implication for the economy and social stability of the…