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New Delhi, Jan 19: BJP MLAs appeared in the Delhi Assembly carrying ‘ploughs’ and staged a protest against the Kejriwal administration, calling it ‘anti-farmer.’ Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the leader of the opposition, told reporters that because the ‘anti-farmer’ government has classified tractors as ‘commercial,’ farmers in Delhi must pay a road tax of Rs 30,000.
According to them, In Delhi’s Nangli, the Kejriwal government has acquired the land of the farmers and only Rs 22 lakh per bigha has been given as compensation, which is much less than the surrounding areas.
Also in addition, farmers have to pay Rs 30,000 in road tax as the government has declared tractors as commercial.
The opposition wants a discussion in the house and Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Leader of the Opposition had said in his statement, “If the government is not ready for the discussion, then all the BJP MLAs will sit on a protest outside the Chief Minister’s office”.
BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma from Vishwas nagar also said that ‘farmers are being exploited in Delhi’.
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On Wednesday, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia enfold dig at the Delhi lieutenant governor Vinay Kumar Saxena in the state assembly session and said that LG was acting like a ‘chieftain of a clan to please his masters’.
The AAP leader attacked the L-G for his apparent unconstitutional interference in the functioning of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Arvind-led Delhi Government. “I urge Delhi LG to not act like a tribal chieftain to appease his big boss but to follow the Constitution.
Instead of paying attention to law and order, Delhi Police and land encroachment, the LG is interfering in an elected government’s work”, Manish Sisodia, the Delhi Chief Minister professed.
