"Please stand by the farmers, `kisan mazdoors`, `aarhtiyas` (agents), labourers and Dalits," Badal said in a statement.
After Rajya Sabha passed two farm bills amid fierce backlash from the Opposition parties, Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday urged President Ram Nath Kovind not to sign those bills.
He further urged the President to return those bills to the parliament for reconsideration.
"Please stand by the farmers, `kisan mazdoors`, `aarhtiyas` (agents), labourers and Dalits," Badal said in a statement.
"Please intervene on their behalf with the government, otherwise they will never forgive us," he said.
"Don`t let the `annadata` or farmers starve or sleep on the roads."
Badal also said that the passage of these farm bills marked a sad day for the country`s millions and for democracy.
"Democracy means consensus, not majority oppression," he added.
It is to be noted that Shiromani Akali Dal is one of the oldest allies of the ruling BJP, and is part of the NDA. Moreover, party`s lone minister in the Narendra Modi government, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, resigned from the Union Cabinet on September 17 to protest the farm bills.
The party also called out the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party for notopposing the passage of the Bills in the Lok Sabha, calling their alleged treachery "back-stabbing the farmers".
The Upper House of the Parliament on Sunday gave its nod to The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, as opposition MPs continued to shout slogans during their passage. Some lawmakers even staged a walkout in protest.
The opposition also demanded that the Bills be sent to the Select committee of the Upper House but it was not accepted by the government.
Despite repeated requests, many opposition members reached the Well of the House to register their protests.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad demanded that discussion on the Bills be continued on Monday. "To decide this, we should go by the consensus among the members, not by the numbers of the ruling party," Azad said.
The opposition, as well as BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal, termed the Bills an "anti-farmers" move by the Centre, with some staging a walkout.
Thousands of farmers in Punjab, Haryana and several other states have been protesting since the government introduced these Bills in the Lok Sabha on September 14, the opening day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
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