New Delhi, August 12, 2021 (PPI-OT):In India, the members of Indian Parliament and leaders of various opposition parties took out a march from Parliament to Vijay Chowk on Thursday to protest against the curtailment of the monsoon session. The MPs held banners and placards with slogans “withdraw farm laws” and “murder of democracy” during the march from Gandhi statue in Parliament to Vijay Chowk. Leading the protest, Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi said, “We have to come out here to speak to the press as we in Opposition are not allowed to speak in the Parliament. This is a murder of democracy.”

He said that the voice of 60 per cent of the country has been crushed, humiliated and on Wednesday in Rajya Sabha, they (women MPs) were physically beaten. Parliament session is over, but as far as 60 per cent of the country is concerned, there has been no Parliament session. The opposition leaders demanded that farm laws should be withdrawn immediately and said they were opposing the curtailment of the monsoon session which was scheduled till Friday.

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