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The protests spread across India on Friday. The country’s leading farmers’ organizations have called for the closure of India on this day. They have closed roads to the capital, New Delhi, and trains in several states.
Farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal have protested. Of these, the impact of the protests is being felt in Punjab and Haryana.
According to a BBC correspondent from Punjab, almost all farmers’ unions have called a strike in the state. Male and female farmers have gathered in protest across the state. They have positioned themselves on the railroad track. They are determined to fight.
There are also protests in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar. Several farmer organizations have blocked roads in different places, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Chandigarh. Most opposition parties in India, including Congress, support the farmers in the protest.
The Amritsar-Delhi highway near Jalandhar in Punjab has been blocked by the Kisan Union of India and the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India. Shiromani Akali Dal, an ally of the NDA, has also taken steps to stop public transportation in Punjab in protest of the agriculture law.
India passes dual bill on land reform, protesters protest
The Delhi-Chandigarh bus was stopped due to protests in Ambala, Haryana. The Kisan Mazdoor Committee has stopped trains in Punjab since Thursday. Friday was no different. A lot of police have been deployed in different states to keep the situation under control. Especially in the vicinity of Delhi.
There are also peasant protests in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi. Traffic was disrupted when the Indian Kisan union blocked the road and protested the bill. In Maharashtra, more than 30,000 members of the left-leaning All India Kisan Sabha organized protests against the bill in some 21 places in the state.
Government and opposition comments:
Two agricultural reform bills, which were previously passed in the lower house of the Indian parliament, were passed by voice in the Rajya Sabha upper house on September 20.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says the land reform project has made it easier for Indian farmers to sell their produce to large buyers.
If the new bills become law, they will reform the law of the mandhata period and eliminate brokers and street vendors from the agricultural business. It will give farmers the opportunity to sell their products to institutional retailers and buyers like Walmart.
Opponents, however, say the BJP reform bills limit the bargaining power of farmers; That is why retailers will now have the opportunity to rely more on farmers.
Furthermore, companies will fully benefit from the bill, as there is no place for farmers in the marketing of agricultural products. As a result, various farmers’ unions and opposition parties view the bill against the interests of farmers.
Harinder Singh Lakhowal, a member of the Punjab unit of the Indian Kisan Union, told BBC Hindi that the protests would continue until the government withdrew from the reforms.
However, amid the protests, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken out in favor of the agriculture bill. In his words, some people are misleading and misleading farmers for personal gain.
In a speech on Friday, Prime Minister Modi asked BJP workers to speak to farmers at the field level and explain the importance of the new farm bill in detail. “Our efforts will put an end to all rumors and false propaganda in the virtual world,” he said.
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