The Congress on Saturday alleged the three contentious farm legal guidelines would convert the ‘annadata’ (meals suppliers) into bonded labourers and mentioned the Narendra Modi authorities ought to “shun its ego” and abrogate these legislations immediately. The Modi government brought three agriculture ordinances on this day last year with the prime minister proclaiming that these would create new opportunities for the farmers, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said.
“However, with these laws the BJP government created opportunities for hoarding and black marketing of food grains for its capitalist friends while the farmers had to brave baton charge, water cannons and tear gas,” he alleged. After being promulgated as ordinances, Parliament in September final yr handed the proposed laws and have been later made into regulation following presidential assent.
Surjewala, who’s the chief spokesperson of the Congress, alleged that with these legal guidelines, the Modi authorities has wreaked havoc on the farmers. “It intends to transform annadata (meals suppliers) into the bonded labourers by unethical provisions of contract farming,” he claimed, adding, “Today, on the anniversary of these black laws, the Modi government should withdraw its decision and abrogate these legislations immediately.”
Scores of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at Delhi’s borders since November final yr demanding the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 be rolled again and a brand new regulation made to ensure minimal assist worth for his or her crops.
The protesting farmers say the legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the security cushion of minimal assist worth and dispose of the ‘mandi’ (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of massive corporates. The Congress social gathering has been supporting the farmers and demanding the abrogation of the three agri legal guidelines. The Centre has, nonetheless, been sustaining that the brand new farm legal guidelines will free farmers from middlemen, giving them extra choices to promote their crops.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday accused the opposition events of spreading misinformation and lies over the just lately enacted farm reform legal guidelines, noting that the central authorities has executed report procurement, with Punjab being the most important beneficiary. The state contributed over 32 per cent of 411.19 lakh tonnes of the wheat procured, with over Rs 26,103.89 crore credited to financial institution accounts of farmers straight, he mentioned.
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