Akalis to PM: Hold talks with farmers sans conditions

Chandigarh, September 28

SAD chief Sukhbir Badal today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene personally and invite farmers for talks without any pre-conditions to revoke the three “black laws” on agriculture.

Felicitating farmers, especially those from Punjab and Haryana, for the success of the bandh yesterday, Badal said it was a clear message to the government that the people of the country stood behind the “annadata”.

Badal urged the PM to convene a special session of Parliament to revoke the three laws that had pushed the country to an impasse. He said had the government heeded their advice when the party not only voted against the Bills in Parliament but even quit the Cabinet and broke the SAD-BJP alliance, the situation today would have been different. He reiterated his party’s support to the farmers’ cause. — TNS

March over land acquisition today

The SAD has urged farmers whose lands were being acquired at low rates by the Cong govt to back its march to the CM’s residence on Wednesday. The march will begin from Gurdwara Amb Sahib, Mohali, to the CM’s residence in Chandigarh.