Changes can be made, farm laws are not religious scriptures: Abdullah
New Delhi, Feb 10: National Conference member Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said that the new farm laws are not religious scriptures that changes cannot be made as he appealed to the Centre to hold a dialogue with the agitating farmers and come out with a solution.
He was speaking during the discussion on Motion of Thanks to the President's address.
"I just want to make this request on the farmers' issue. It is not a 'Khudai kitaab' (religious scripture) that we cannot make changes. But we have made law. If they (farmers) want it to be scrapped, why can't you talk to them," he said.
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"I would request you with folded hands that let us not stand on prestige... This is our nation. We belong to this nation and if we belong to this nation let us respect everybody in this nation," Abdullah said, adding, "Come out with a solution."
He also urged the law minister to bring some law to stop such activities.
Abdullah also asserted that Lord Ram belongs to the whole world.
"Ram
belongs
to
all
of
us.
The
way
Muslims
have
held
on
to
the
Quran,
the
Quran
is
not
just
ours."
He
also
accused
NDA
MPs
of
questioning
the
stature
of
political
visionaries
such
as
Jawaharlal
Nehru
and
said
that
he
feels
really
bad
when
he
sees
that
fingers
are
being
pointed
at
India's
first
prime
minister,
Sardar
Patel,
Indira
Gandhi,
Rajiv
Gandhi
and
other
leaders.
"It is not an Indian parampara. Respect those who have gone," he stressed.
On the recently-concluded District Development Council (DDC) polls, he said, these happened peacefully but now elected members were being purchased to force the members to vote for others.
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Congratulating Indian scientists and the Serum Institute of India for developing a vaccine against coronavirus, he said that as of now very few people were being vaccinated and efforts should be made that more and more people get the jab.
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He also said that the virus has badly hit the tourism industry in Jammu and Kashmir and he has no words to explain the poverty of the people in the Union territory.