JOIN USTop BJP leaders, including party chief Amit Shah and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, went into a huddle at Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence on Saturday, ahead of Parliament's Budget session, which begins on Monday.
Besides a vociferous Opposition, the saffron party may also face farmer protests led by social activist Anna Hazare against the proposed amendments in the Land Acquisition Act. With reports from the state BJP units that the party risks the “anti-farmer” tag, the leaders discussed a strategy to be adopted in Parliament.
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act was introduced by the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government in 2013. The government is in no mood to make any reversal in the controversial land Ordinance while bringing a bill to replace it with an Act of Parliament during the session. It has held that restrictions on buying land in the Act have held up projects worth almost Rs 20 lakh crore in sectors such as rail, steel, mining and roads.