The Modi authorities has been harassing farmers not only for the final seven months of their protest towards the three farm legal guidelines, however because it got here to energy seven years in the past, the Congress alleged on Saturday. Party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala additionally posed a set of seven questions to the central authorities, asking whether or not it was working on a coverage to “tire and drive away, harass and defeat, defame and divide” the protesting farmers by conspiring towards them.
The protest towards the legal guidelines by farmers tenting at varied Delhi border factors started in November final yr and they’re demanding that the legislations be withdrawn. “Even though farmers are sitting on an agitation since November last year, the Modi government has been conspiring to harass them for the last seven years ever since it came to power in 2014 by bringing the Land Acquisition Act to take away their land,” Surjewala mentioned.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has appealed to protesting farmers to finish their agitation, saying the federal government is prepared to resume talks on the provisions of three legislations, which had been enacted in September final yr. The authorities and farmer unions have held 11 rounds of talks up to now, the final being on January 22, to break the impasse and finish the protest. Talks haven’t resumed following widespread violence throughout a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26.
The Supreme Court has put on maintain the implementation of the legal guidelines until additional orders and has arrange a committee to discover options, and it has already submitted its report. The Congress spokesperson alleged that the rise in costs of farm inputs and rise in diesel worth are geared toward making farming unremunerative in order that farmers promote their land. He claimed that the federal government has taken quite a lot of steps towards farmers and these embrace decreasing minimal assist worth (MSP) of crops, brouging farm insurance coverage to profit insurance coverage companies, imposing Goods and Services Tax on farm inputs like fertilisers, pesticides, tractors, drips and sprinklers, after which bringing the three “black” farm legal guidelines, that are all geared toward breaking the market to profit capitalists. “On one hand (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji pretends to give Rs 6,000 annually and on the other hand, takes out Rs 20,000 per hectare from the pockets of farmers by increasing the cost of farming,” he mentioned.
Posing the seven questions to the federal government, Surjewala requested whether or not the Cost and Price Commission in its Kharif Report for 2021-22 has mentioned the federal government retains the pattern measurement too small to calculate price and this leads to incorrect price worth. “Has the government not shut down grain markets continuously ever since the three black laws were implemented,” he requested.
Is not the farmer free to promote his crop wherever within the nation exterior ‘mandis’ and if that is true, then what’s the want of the three legal guidelines, Surjewala requested. “Hasn’t hoarding stopped ever since the three agri laws have been suspended for implementation ? Then why does the Modi government want to give exemption to hoarders by implementing the three black laws that promote hoarding,” the Congress chief requested.
Is the federal government not working on a coverage to “tire and drive away, harass and defeat, defame and divide farmers by conspiring against them”, the Congress chief requested.
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