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Chandigarh, Nov 29 (PTI) Shortly after the repeal of three central farm laws by Parliament, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday demanded the dropping of all cases lodged against farmers during the over year-long agitation against the legislations.
Claiming registration of more than 48,000 cases against farmers during the year-long anti farm law agitation by them, Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union (Chaduni) president Gurnam Singh Chaduni also demanded the withdrawal of cases against farmers.
The Parliament on Monday passed The Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 to annul the three farm laws against which farmers have been protesting for over a year, with its passage in the Rajya Sabha shortly after the Lok Sabha did it.
The Lower House had passed the repeal bill within minutes of its introduction.
“It’s better late than never,” Hooda told reporters during an informal conversation with them when asked to comment on the repeal of the three laws.
“Right from the start, we had been maintaining that these laws are not in the interest of farmers.