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President gives assent to farm bills

By The Assam Tribune - 15 Sep 2010 12:00 AM GMT

NEW DELHI, Sept 27 - President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the three contentious agricultural Bills that were passed in the Parliament amid protests by Opposition parties.

The President signed the Farmers� Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, into law on September 24 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill on September 26.

The Law Ministry has notified all the three Bills which are now laws. Many Opposition parties including the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which was then part of the ruling alliance, urged the President not to sign the bills after they were passed by the Parliament.

After meeting the President on September 21, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said: �We have requested the President against signing the anti-farmer bills that were passed in the Parliament by force. We requested him to send back those bills to the Parliament.� The Akali Dal, whose sole Minister in the Narendra Modi government � Harsimrat Kaur Badal � had resigned ahead of voting on the bills in the Lok Sabha, has also exited the NDA on this issue. � IANS