The Shiv Sena on Saturday alleged that the Narendra Modi government was moving towards privatisation of airports, railways, harbours, insurance groups and also giving control of farmers’ lives to private players. The party was referring to the farm bills controversy.
“The government was, on one hand, pushing the country towards privatisation of Air India, airports, harbours and insurance companies and on the other handing over the lives of farmers to the hands of traders and private players,” the party said in an editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana. “The Modi government’s economic, business and agriculture-related policies are raising doubts.”
Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur, a member of the National Democratic Alliance ally Shiromani Akali Dal, has resigned in view of these matters, the party said, adding that the Centre introduced the agriculture bills…