New Delhi: MPs of the ruling and Opposition parties remained deadlocked on Tuesday on the issue of the three contentious farm laws and did not let Parliament function even as the government, which has taken a hard stand against the ongoing protests, said that it will not give compensation to the families of farmers who have died during the ongoing agitation against the new farm laws.
In a written reply to a question in Parliament, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that during discussion with farmers’ unions the government had “appealed many times that children and elders including women should be requested to go home in view of the cold and Covid situation and other hardships.” He, however, informed the Lower House that the government is negotiating with the farmer unions.
In Rajya Sabha, Opposition MPs staged a walkout demanding a discussion exclusively on the farmers issues, and in Lok Sabha, MPs rushed to the Well of the House demanding that the…