Five people claiming to be members of the Punjab Youth Congress were arrested after unloading a tractor from a truck in the high security area on Rajpath, a few hundred meters from the House of the President and Parliament, in the national capital. and get it going. fire around 7AM. “On the anniversary of #BhagatSingh’s birth, the Youth Congress set fire to a tractor in protest against government anti-farmer bills,” tweeted the Indian Youth Congress.
The BJP lashed out at Congress for the incident, saying it has “embarrassed” the country with its “drama” aimed at getting publicity and “fooling” farmers. BJP Secretary General Bhupender Yadav called Congress “anti-farmers”, saying that farmers revere their agricultural machinery and will not set tractors on fire.
About 100 Gujarat Congress workers, including the chairman of the state party, Amit Chavda, and members of the National Liberation Army Baldevji Thakor and CJ Chavda, were detained in Gandhinagar during the protests. In Lucknow, the chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Congressional Committee (UPCC), Ajay Kumar Lallu, and other party workers were arrested during the protest.
Hundreds of congressional workers marched in Kolkata carrying piles of straw on their shoulders and presented a memorandum to West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, urging him to “intervene and ensure” that the laws were immediately repealed. The party said similar protests were carried out in other states by PCC chairmen, MLAs, MPs, and party officials and leaders who marched towards the governors’ residence.
The opposition led by Congress has argued that the laws will make farmers vulnerable to exploitation and will lead to the elimination of the Minimum Subsistence Price (MSP) system. They also criticize the way these bills were passed in Parliament.
The Center has argued that the laws would benefit farmers, as they would have the freedom to choose buyers for their products and obtain a remunerative price. Furthermore, he stressed that the MSP system will continue. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said Congress has been trying to do politics on behalf of farmers, and has been unmasked.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said he will constitutionally and legally combat the Center’s malicious new agricultural laws, and stated that he will do whatever is necessary to protect farmers. “I have said that we will take this matter forward. The president has approved these bills and now we will take this matter to the Supreme Court,” Singh said after paying tribute to Bhagat Singh on his 113th birthday at his ancestral place Khatkar Kalan in SBS Nagar District.
“There has been peace in Punjab, but when you try to take someone’s food, they will not get angry. It becomes the ISI’s target. That is why I say that everything they have done is anti-national,” he said later. Reporters said that “with the unrest among farmers spreading to other states, the entire nation would be exposed to the threat of ISI.”
AICC Secretary General in Charge of Punjab Affairs Harish Rawat announced a signature drive starting on October 2 to collect two million signatures from farmers against the new agricultural laws and these will be presented to the president of the India on November 14. In Lucknow, police detained members of the student wing of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party as they tried to march towards the prime minister’s residence.
The Haryana Congress held a protest outside the party’s state headquarters in Chandigarh, claiming the laws will make farmers “dependent” and leave them at the mercy of large corporations. A delegation consisting of Haryana’s head of Congress, Kumari Selja, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the party’s state affairs officer, Vivek Bansal, and other high-ranking leaders presented a memorandum to Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya that was addressed to the president.
The leaders of the Telangana Congress and the new AICC in charge of party affairs in Telangana Manickam Tagore were arrested when they tried to address the Raj Bhavan from an adjacent government guest house. They were later released by the police. President Ram Nath Kovind has consented to all three agricultural bills: the Agricultural Products Trade and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill 2020, the Farmers Agricultural Price and Services Guarantee Agreement (Empowerment and Protection), 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020.
Meanwhile, farmers’ organizations backed by various other social and political groups organized protests across Karnataka on Monday against amendments to the Karnataka Land Reform Law and the Law of the Agricultural Products Marketing Committee passed by the Karnataka Assembly. . The convening of a bandh from the Karnataka Raitha Sangha (Karnataka Farmers Association) and other farmers’ organizations was supported by Congress, JD (S), Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) and left-wing parties.
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