Abhay Chautala quits as MLA
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‘Resigned as Centre refused to meet demands of farmers’
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‘Resigned as Centre refused to meet demands of farmers’
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Chautala, a sitting MLA from Ellenabad in Haryana, on Wednesday resigned from the Legislative Assembly over the Centre’s new farm laws.
Mr. Chautala, the sole MLA in Haryana from his party, submitted his resignation to Speaker Gian Chand Gupta here. The Speaker told journalists that the resignation had been accepted with immediate effect. In his resignation, Mr. Chautala mentioned that he was quitting because demands of farmers, who had been agitating against the Centre’s farm laws, had not been accepted, said Mr. Gupta.
Chandigarh [India], January 15 (ANI): Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Singh Chautala said that he will on Friday start a tractor rally from Punjab's Ambala in which thousands of party workers will participate.
Synopsis In a letter to Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, Chautala, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Haryana s Ellenabad, slammed the Centre for imposing the black laws on farmers in an undemocratic way and said the farming community in the entire country is opposing these legislations.
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More than 60 farmers have attained martyrdom because of the intense cold weather but the Centre has paid no heed to their demands, Chautala wrote in the letter.
Chandigarh: INLD legislator Abhay Singh Chautala wrote to the Haryana Assembly speaker on Monday, saying if the Centre does not withdraw the three recent farm laws by January 26, then his letter may be considered as his resignation as an MLA from the House. In a letter to Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, Chautala, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Haryana s Ellenabad, slammed the Centre for imposing the black laws on farmers in an undemocratic way and said the farming community in the entire country is opposing
Farmers in Haryana didn t go as far as those in neighbouring Punjab, but the protests over the Centre s new agri-marketing laws kept politics on the boil in this state as well in the closing months of the year. The year was also marked by a new Haryanvis First policy on jobs, a law in the making against the so-called love jihad and a tussle between the chief minister and the home minister over a coveted police department. All this against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, which tested Haryana as it did the rest of the country. Months before the current agitation over the Centre s three new farm laws erupted, the opposition Congress and the Indian National Lok Dal had already begun raising farmers issues in the state.