Harsimrat, Tewari, Deepender, Mann move adjournment notices in Lok Sabha on farmers' issue

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 20

Punjab MPs Harsimrat Badal, Manish Tewari and Bhagwant Mann moved adjournment motion notices in Lok Sabha for the second straight day, urging Speaker Om Birla to suspend the House business and discuss the concerns of agitating farmers.

Shiromani Akali Dal MP Harsimrat said the matter of repeal of farm laws must be urgently taken up as farmers continued to protest and press for annulment of the “black farm laws”.

She repeated the notice that was sent on Monday when the Monsoon Session met for the first day and said hundreds of farmers who had died during the agitation must be recognised as martyrs and remembered by the House.

Tewari demanded threadbare discussions on the apprehensions of farmers, including the dismantling of the MSP and APMC structures.

Mann said the eight-month-long agitation had led to a national crisis and the Lok Sabha must suspend the entire business and deliberate on matters agitating the farmers.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha had recently said it would watch the support political parties offered on the floor of the House to raise issues of farmers.

Notices for adjournment of proceedings to discuss farmers issues were also given by Congress MPs Deepender Hooda and Partap Singh Bajwa in Rajya Sabha.