Chandigarh, Sept. 21 -- Making another effort to stop the implementation of agriculture legislations by the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), NDA's prime ally, on Sunday urged the President Ram Nath Kovind not to put his seal of approval on the Bills passed by the Parliament on the farmers' produce marketing.
"I beseech you to please stand by the beleaguered and toiling farmers, farm labour (khet mazdoors), Mandi labour, and Dalits in their hour of need. They are facing exploitation and look up to you to exercise your discretion as the highest executive in the country and come to their rescue by not signing these bills so that they do not acquire the finality of an Act," said SAD president Sukhbir Singh B...