The Delhi Legislative Assembly passed a resolution against the three new farm laws in a Special Session held on Thursday.
While tabling the resolution in the legislative Assembly to repeal the Centre’s three new farm laws, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he cannot betray the farmers and the soldiers of the country, and tore up copies of the Centre’s three new farm laws in the Assembly.
Addressing the Assembly, the CM also alleged that the laws “have been made for electoral funding of the BJP and not the farmers”.
“I support the resolution tabled in the Assembly today. I am pained that I have to do this. I did not intend to, but I cannot betray the farmers of my country who have been sleeping on the streets in the cold…when the temperature is just 2 degrees Celsius. This Assembly rejects the three laws and appeals to the Central Government to meet the demands of farmers,” he said.
He said the Centre should not be under the impression that the farmers will return to their homes. In 1907, a farmers’ protest had continued for nine months till the British repealed some laws, he said.
The Government convened a one-day Special Session of the Assembly to discuss the alleged misappropriation of nearly Rs 2,500 crore in the municipal corporations.