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News Desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi warns Indian farmers that oppositions are misleading them. So farmers shouldn’t fall in their trap. He said that these laws will unshackle farmers by allowing them to sell their produce anywhere by negotiating a better price. It’ll also protect them from middlemen.
Two farm Bills – one on Agri market reforms and the other on contract farming provisions – were passed Thursday while the one on amending Essential Commodities Act was passed on Tuesday. Political parties and farm organisations such as the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) and the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), an umbrella body of several other organisations, have been protesting against the bills which they believe are designed to help big corporate houses at the cost of farmers, other groups such as Maharashtra-based Shetkari Sanghatana support such reforms. Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Modi government on Thursday in protest against the bill, saying that her party – SAD – stands with the farmers.
He assured “Opposition parties are spreading fake news that MSP will be withdrawn. I assure the farmers that the MSP will continue in future the way it is happening today. The government will continue to purchase their produces”
