Congressional Deputy Pratap Singh Bajwa called the agricultural sector bills “a death sentence for farmers.”
New Delhi:
Calling the agricultural sector bills, two of which have been placed in Rajya Sabha today, an attack on the soul of farmers, Congress Deputy Pratap Singh Bajwa said his party would not sign an “order of death to farmers. “
“The Congress party rejects this bill … We will not sign this farmers’ death warrant … Farmers don’t want this benefit that you claim is for them, so why are you trying to force them to feed them? ? “Bajwa said. , adding that all farmers, particularly those in Punjab and Haryana, think that these bills are an attack on their soul.
“The farmers are not illiterate. They understand that this is a way to end the MSP (Minimum Support Price). Once this is approved, corporate houses will seize farmland,” said the congressman. , adding that the trade was like the East India Company and the Portuguese invaded India.
He added that agriculture and markets are state issues and these bills go against the spirit of a federal cooperative.
Congress is among the parties, including the BJP’s oldest ally, Shiromani Akali Dal, opposing the three agricultural sector ordinances that were recently passed in Lok Sabha despite widespread protests in Haryana and Punjab, among others. state. The riots continue as farmers want these bills repealed.
Farmers’ unions have expressed fear that the bills will disrupt government support to buy their products and that this would leave them vulnerable in the open market. Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that the minimum support price system would continue, he has yet to make a statement in parliament, as Bajwa also noted today after Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar moved the two bills. of agriculture.
Tomar has reiterated that the bills have nothing to do with the Minimum Support Price. “The MSP will continue as before. I said it in Lok Sabha and PM Modi himself has assured that the MSP will not be altered,” Tomar said.
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