Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke today about the Center’s new agricultural laws and the benefits they brought, as the country witnessed an unprecedented protest from farmers over the past four days. By demanding that the laws be removed, thousands of farmers from various states have been camping in and around Delhi, rejecting the government’s request to move their protest to a designated location.
“The agricultural reforms of the past few days have also opened new doors of possibility for our farmers,” Prime Minister Modi said in his monthly Mann ki Baat radio address. “The demands that farmers have made for years, that all the political parties, at some point or another, promised to fulfill, those demands have been met,” said Prime Minister Modi.
“After much deliberation, the Indian Parliament gave legal form to agricultural reforms. These reforms have not only served to liberate our farmers, but have also given them new rights and opportunities,” he said, adding that “in In a brief time, these new rights have begun to address the sufferings of our farmers. “
As an example, he spoke of a farmer in Dhule in Maharashtra who did not pay for his maize crop for four months.
“Buy the crop from the farmer, keep the payment pending for months and months; probably this was the long tradition that corn buyers followed … In this situation, the new agricultural laws that were approved in September reached Under this law, it was decided that all the farmers’ quotas must be settled within three days after the acquisition, otherwise the farmer can file a complaint, “he said.
After fighting with water cannons, tear gas and police barricades for three days, thousands of farmers from various states, including Punjab and Haryana, had arrived at the gates of Delhi on Friday.
Those who managed to enter the city are camping in a field in north Delhi. Thousands more remained at the border points, not deciding whether to go to the place of the demonstration identified by the police.
On Saturday, the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah assured the protesters that the government was ready to deliberate on “all the problems and demands” of the farmers.
The Center, he said, will hold talks with farmers’ unions on December 3 and if they want to hold discussions before then, they will have to move their protest to a government-designated location.
Farmers, however, have responded that the government should present itself with an “open heart” and not with a “condition”.
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