Party leader and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal will quit the Modi government in order to protest against the three farm bills tabled by the Centre in Parliament, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal announced in Lok Sabha, today.
“I announce that Harsimrat Kaur Badal will resign from the government,” he said in Lok Sabha.
Her husband Sukhbir Singh Badal said the proposed laws will “destroy” the 50 years of hard work done by successive Punjab governments to build the farm sector. The Akalis will continue to support the government and BJP but will oppose the “anti-farmer politics”.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal is the only SAD representative in the Modi government. The Punjab party’s oldest BJP ally.
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