NEW DELHI: Offer to hold discussions with farmers to allay apprehensions about farm bills, BJP on Thursday accused Congress of the “double-sided” policy and said Rahul gandhi He should first unlink his party from his 2019 electoral manifesto in which he had promised what the Modi government has done.
At a press conference, BJP Senior Leader and Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar He reiterated the government’s commitment to the welfare of farmers and said that the new measures would bring them remunerative prices for their products.
Tomar said the government was open to talks with farmers. “If any farmer wants to speak to a government representative about these bills, even at midnight, we are ready,” he added.
He claimed that criticism from opposition members during the debates never referred to the provisions of these proposed laws, but to things they didn’t have or other unrelated issues.
Responding to the demand that there should be a law to ensure that farmers do not receive less than the minimum price of support when the proposed laws go into effect, he said the MSP was always a government administrative decision and will continue to be. “Why didn’t Congress introduce a law during its 50 years of rule if it believes this was necessary?” I ask.
He also cited reports from various commissions and reported opinions from Sharad pawar, who was Minister of Agriculture in the UPA government, to affirm that the agricultural bills were in line with his recommendations.
When asked about Rahul’s accusation that the Modi government had harmed farmers and was now doing “public relations”, Tomar said the leader of Congress should first withdraw his party’s manifesto if he wanted to oppose these projects. Of law. If you agree with the congressional manifesto of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, then you should join forces to educate farmers, he added.
Congress was “misleading” the farmers and practicing a “double-sided” policy, he said, adding that this would weaken the party and the nation as well.
Highlighting the pro-farmer policies of the Modi government, he said he had given them Rs 7 lakh crore through the purchase of his produce in his six years in office, which was more than double the UPA’s 10 years. . Tomar said that good people had ceased to be important in Congress, and those who led them had ceased to be important in the country.
“Farmers, until now, were forced to sell their products in mandi. In Punjab, there is an 8.5% tax on mandi on various items. Now, through these bills, farmers will be able to sell their products even outside the scope of the mandi, even outside their state at the price they choose, ”said Tomar.
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