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Chandigarh, Sep 20: Shiromani Akal Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday urged the President not to give his assent to the farm bills passed by Rajya Sabha, asking him to return them to Parliament for reconsideration.
Badal said the passage of the bills marked a “sad day” for democracy and millions in the country.
Sukhbir Singh Badal
“Democracy means consensus, not majority oppression,” the SAD leader said in a statement shortly after Rajya Sabha passed two of the three bills.
In a rarely exercised provision, the Constitution gives the President the power to withhold assent to certain categories of…
