New Delhi: BJP Ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party on Saturday quited the NDA over protest against farm laws. More details will be added.
I am not stuck with Fevicol with the NDA. Today, I separate myself from the NDA. We won’t stand with anyone who is against farmers,” Mr Beniwal said, addressing protesters at the Shahjahanpur-Kheda border in Rajasthan’s Alwar district after leading rally against the new laws and promising a march to Delhi.”I was stopped from entering the Lok Sabha with a fudged Covid report. Had I been there, I would have thrown away the copy of the farm bills in the house,” said the 48-year-old politician who had earlier declared that his party will “think about continuing” with the NDA if the “black laws” are not repealed.
Mr Beniwal, a Lok Sabha MP from Rajasthan’s Nagaur, had launched the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) in Rajasthan after quitting the BJP before the 2018 state polls. The party allied with the BJP ahead of the 2019 general elections.The RLP is the latest member of the NDA to leave the alliance which earlier has seen high-profile exits in the Shiv Sena last year and the Shiromani Akali Dal, which quit in September after facing a backlash from farmers.
Farmers launched a massive demonstration last month against the three new central government which they fear will eventually dismantle regulated markets and stop the government buying wheat and rice at guaranteed prices.Thousands of farmers from several states have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi for over a month, blocking highways to demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government repeal the farm laws passed in September with little debate.
