The Modi authorities has been harassing farmers not only for the final seven months of their protest in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines, however because it got here to energy seven years in the past, the Congress alleged on Saturday. Occasion chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala additionally posed a set of seven inquiries to the central authorities, asking whether or not it was engaged on a coverage to “tire and drive away, harass and defeat, defame and divide” the protesting farmers by conspiring in opposition to them.
The protest in opposition to the legal guidelines by farmers tenting at numerous Delhi border factors started in November final yr and they’re demanding that the legislations be withdrawn. “Though farmers are sitting on an agitation since November final yr, the Modi authorities has been conspiring to harass them for the final seven years ever because it got here to energy in 2014 by bringing the Land Acquisition Act to remove their land,” Surjewala stated.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has appealed to protesting farmers to finish their agitation, saying the federal government is able to resume talks on the provisions of three legislations, which have been enacted in September final yr. The federal government and farmer unions have held 11 rounds of talks to this point, the final being on January 22, to interrupt 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 docket has placed on maintain the implementation of the legal guidelines until additional orders and has arrange a committee to seek out options, and it has already submitted its report. The Congress spokesperson alleged that the rise in costs of farm inputs and rise in diesel value are aimed toward making farming unremunerative in order that farmers promote their land. He claimed that the federal government has taken a lot of steps in opposition to farmers and these embrace decreasing minimal assist value (MSP) of crops, brouging farm insurance coverage to learn insurance coverage corporations, imposing Items and Providers Tax on farm inputs like fertilisers, pesticides, tractors, drips and sprinklers, after which bringing the three “black” farm legal guidelines, that are all aimed toward breaking the market to learn capitalists. “On one hand (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji pretends to offer Rs 6,000 yearly and however, takes out Rs 20,000 per hectare from the pockets of farmers by rising the price of farming,” he stated.
Posing the seven inquiries to the federal government, Surjewala requested whether or not the Price and Worth Fee in its Kharif Report for 2021-22 has stated the federal government retains the pattern measurement too small to calculate value and this results in incorrect value value. “Has the federal government not shut down grain markets constantly ever for the reason that three black legal guidelines have been applied,” he requested.
Is just not the farmer free to promote his crop anyplace 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 for the reason that three agri legal guidelines have been suspended for implementation ? Then why does the Modi authorities need to give exemption to hoarders by implementing the three black legal guidelines that promote hoarding,” the Congress chief requested.
Is the federal government not engaged on a coverage to “tire and drive away, harass and defeat, defame and divide farmers by conspiring in opposition to them”, the Congress chief requested.
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