BJP ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party quits NDA over farm laws

BJP ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party has quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in protest over the centre’s three agricultural laws, PTI reported.  

Hanuman Beniwal, the founding member and National Convenor of the party, announced the decision while addressing the protesters at the Shahjahanpur-Kheda border in the Alwar district of Rajasthan on Saturday.

“I am not stuck with Fevicol with the NDA. Today, I separate myself from the NDA,” Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal announced, PTI reported. 

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This decision comes less than a month after Beniwal had threatened to quit the NDA if the laws were not repealed. 

“By drawing your attention to the farmer protests against the three bills, I would like to request you to immediately take action to withdraw these bills. The people who feed the country are agitating amid this extreme winter and the Covid-19 pandemic, which does not reflect well on the government,” he had written in a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.