Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday attacked the central government over the three controversial farm laws, saying only businesses, and not farmers, would benefit from them.
Addressing farmers at ‘Safar-e-Shahadat’ Kirtan Darbar, commemorating the martyrdom of Mata Gujri and the chaar sahibzaadas At the Singhu border, Kejriwal said: “The Center is not talking about the benefits of the laws for farmers, all they are saying is that it will not cause them any harm … Only the companies will get its benefits.”
Hit the NDA leaders who have been assuring farmers This minimum support price (MSP) will not be taken from the farmers. “They say that the laws will not take away the land from the farmers, nor the MSP… are these benefits? These were already there … Why did you bring the laws then? Tear it up and throw it away, ”said the Delhi CM, adding that he has not met a single NDA leader who can explain how farm laws can help farmers.
Issuing a challenge to the Center, he said: “It is alleged that farmers are being misled. I challenge any minister in the Union to discuss agricultural laws with farmers, it will be clear how beneficial or harmful they are.
In an evening reference to the other political rival of the Aam Aadmi party, Congress, Kejriwal said: “For 70 years, everyone deceived the farmers… all the netas, parties. Now, by enacting these laws, they (the current government) also want to seize their crops … What else do farmers have? “
Describing the ordeal of protesting farmers, who have faced the biting cold on the borders of the national capital for more than a month, he said: “Our farmers are forced to sleep on the streets in the middle of this cold during the last 32 days. Why? It hurts me that more than 40 people have lost their lives here (at the borders) ”. He hopes that the Center does not allow “more farmers to be martyred.” “I appeal to the Center with folded hands to listen to them and repeal the agricultural laws.”
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