Several hot-button issues taken up by the government this week have triggered a debate over the federal character of the polity, with opposition and regional parties accusing the Centre of “transgressing into the powers of the state government on subjects that are in the concurrent list”.
The passage of the farm Bills has come at the cost of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), one of the BJP’s oldest allies, walking out of the Union Cabinet — and also threatening an exit from the NDA.
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