Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from her post of Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing, in protest against farm bills. Taking to Twitter, she said that she is protesting against anti-farmer ordinances and legislation. “Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigns from her post of Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing, in protest against farm bills,” she tweeted.
Prior to her resignation, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal announced in Lok Sabha that party leader and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal will quit the Modi government in protest against the three farm bills tabled by the Centre in Parliament. “I announce that Harsimrat Kaur Badal will resign from the government,” Sukhbir Singh Badal said in Lok Sabha.
She is the only SAD representative in the Modi government. The Punjab party is the oldest BJP ally.
