Hold Punjab Assembly session on farm ordinances: AAP

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 16

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, has stressed the need for convening a special session of the Punjab Assembly on the issue of three ordinances passed by the Central Government recently. It claimed the ordinances would hit the agriculture sector hard and make millions of farmers and labourers suffer.

A delegation of the party, led by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Harpal Singh Cheema, met Assembly Speaker Rana KP Singh in Chandigarh on Tuesday to hand over a memorandum to him over the ordinances, which, the delegation alleged, were anti-farmer and anti-state.

“The three ordinances, introduced by the

Union Government, are nothing but a political gimmick in the name of agricultural reforms,” the memorandum said.