As the impasse between farmers and Centre in the wake of contentious farm laws remains unsolved, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has threatened to move to the Supreme Court. He has said that he will go to the apex court said if the bills passed by the state Assembly do not receive presidential assent. Notably, this comes after the Punjab government passed a bill against the farm laws last month.
“Unfortunately, the governor is still sitting on instead of forwarding them for presidential approval even though the Vidhan Sabha had unanimously passed the bills, with all parties voting for them,” the Punjab CM said.
He further said that the Centre should scrap three farm laws, sit with the farmers and make new legislations in their place. He was addressing the media on completing four years of his government.
“I fail to understand why the central government is trying to break the age-old time-tested relationship between farmers and arhtiyas,” Singh said adding that the new laws are not an improvement on the existing system and will destroy the farming sector.
Farmers from all over the country but majorly from Haryana and Punjab have been protesting in the National Capital against the three farm laws that were passed in September last year. Time and again, the Punjab CM has extended his support to the movement.
Pubjab also became the first state in the country to pass four bills and a resolution against the Central laws in October last year.
