After quitting all Parliamentary forums as a protest against the new farm laws and slamming the Modi Government’s handling of the farmers agitation on the outskirts of Delhi, the BJP ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) on Saturday announced its exit from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
RLP chief and the Jat leader from Rajasthan Hanuman Beniwal said, “I announce that I am leaving the NDA. I am breaking away.” The RLP is the second BJP ally after the Akali Dal to leave the NDA over the new farm laws.
Announcing his decision to leave the NDA, Hanuman Beniwal alleged that his Covid-19 test report was “fudged” to keep him out of Parliament.
“The farm laws were brought in my absence. If I was present in the Lok Sabha when the farm laws were brought, I would have torn them apart and thrown them away,” Beniwal said.
Beniwal, the Lok Sabha member from Rajasthan’s Nagaur, had given a call for two lakh farmers to move towards Delhi in support of the farmers’ agitation that has been on for the past one month.
Earlier during the day, Beniwal led farmers’ movement from Jaipur, Nagaur, Barmer, Jodhpur and other parts of Rajasthan into Kotputli on the way to Shahjahanpur after earlier announcing that he will lead the agitation into Delhi in opposition to the three farm laws brought by the Centre.
“Despite the farmers’ protests, the Narendra Modi Government is not withdrawing farm laws because it has 303 MPs. Farmers from 1,200 kilometres away in Rajasthan are moving towards Delhi to be a part of the agitation,” he said.