New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP, has justified British Parliament’s discussion on India’s farmers’ protest saying they are free to discuss this.
He said the “elected representatives are free to air their points of view” in a democracy. India has already condemned it saying it is the internal matter of the country.
India had summoned the British High Commissioner over the “unwarranted discussion” in the UK Parliament earlier this month about farmers’ protests on farm laws.
The Congress leaders said one should recognise there is another point of view and that in democracies, elected representatives are free to air their points of view. This is normal give and takes that happen between democracies, Tharoor said.
Worthwhile to mention here that the agitating farmers have been camping at several border points near Delhi for nearly four months. They are demanding the repeal of three farm laws.
The Ministry of External Affairs had on Tuesday “conveyed strong opposition to the unwarranted and tendentious discussion on agricultural reforms in India in the British Parliament”.