Chandigarh, March 11 -- The Punjab assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution "on betrayal of Punjab's agriculture through the India-US trade agreement", with ruling as well as opposition members unanimously accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of working under the pressure of US President Donal Trump.

Leading the charge, chief minister Bhagwant Mann said the proposed India-US trade agreement was worse for the Indian agriculture "far greater than the three black farm laws". Opening India's agricultural markets to heavily subsidised American produce would leave farmers in Punjab and across the country struggling to compete, he warned.

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