RSS affiliate demands greater scrutiny of three farm bills

NEW DELHI: A day after senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Union Cabinet to protest farm ordinances that were passed in Lok Sabha, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, an affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has asked the government to send the three bills to a parliamentary committee for greater scrutiny.

Senior leaders of BKS said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) should have planned the bills for the winter session of Parliament in December and not pushed them in the monsoon session. BKS also wanted the government to bring a bill in Parliament to ensure that farmers get minimum support price or MSP for their crops and that companies pay above MSP for the agriculture produce.

“We are in touch with representatives of the union government. We are not opposed to the three Bills but we have our own…

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