Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday stated some people for their “ulterior interests” are misleading farmers and requested them to be cautious of such “selfish” components.
CM Adityanath additionally stated that after 70 years of independence, a authorities has come on the Centre which is dedicated to double farmers’ revenue and guarantee their welfare.
Interacting with farmers at a conference in Gorakhpur, Adityanath requested them to be cautious of “vested and selfish elements” who at all times mislead farmers and use them for their “ulterior interests”.
These are the identical people who whereas in energy didn’t do something for the welfare of farmers, he stated with out naming any political get together or individual.
“Such elements used them (farmers) to make their own fortune and allowed farming communities to languish in penury and debt,” he stated whereas addressing the conference organised underneath the Mission Kisan Kalyan.
Adityanath apprised the conference of the work executed by the Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre, and the BJP authorities in the state in the curiosity of farmers. He stated that those that misled farmers have at all times been ordinary liars.Â
“These people have spread a lie that farmland will be grabbed under contract farming, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already made it clear that contract farming is just another option, not an obligation and farmers have all the freedom to sell their produce anywhere to earn more profit from the market,” Adityanath stated referring to the brand new farm legal guidelines.
He additionally sought to allay fears that mandis shall be closed. “Not a single mandi was closed since June 2020, when the farm bills were brought, but a deliberate misinformation campaign was run to misguide farmers,” Adityanath stated.
Farmers, largely from Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting at Delhi’s borders since November 28 final yr demanding rollback of the legal guidelines.
They are protesting in opposition to the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
The three farm legal guidelines, enacted in September final yr, have been projected by the federal government as main reforms in the agriculture sector that can take away middlemen and permit farmers to promote wherever in the nation.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the protection cushion of MSP and put off the mandis, leaving them on the mercy of massive corporates. The Centre has repeatedly asserted that these mechanisms will stay.
