Updated: September 29, 2020 7:05:02 pm
A tractor was set on fire outside the India Gate in New Delhi on Monday.
Attacking the opposition over protests against controversial farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that some people don’t want farmers to sell their produce on the open market and are insulting them by setting fire to “goods and equipment adored by farmers. farmers”.
“These people are neither with the farmer, nor with the youth nor with the soldiers,” he said.
“Today, even when the central government is giving farmers their rights, these people have protested. These people want the country’s farmers to not be able to sell their products on the open market. These people are now insulting the farmers by setting fire to the goods and equipment that the farmer loves, ”the prime minister said in an apparent reference to an incident in Rajpath where a group of men, including several members of the Punjab unit of Congress Youth, set fire. a tractor on fire Monday morning at protest against farm laws.
Criticizing the opposition, the Prime Minister said that they also opposed the government’s initiatives to open Jan-dhan accounts for the poor and promote digital payments, the introduction of GST, implementation of a rank, a pension, surgical strikes, reserve 10 percent to the poor, organization of International Yoga Day, purchase of Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force, inauguration of the statue of unity, and laying of the foundation stone for the Shriram temple.
“The country is seeing how some people protest just to protest,” Modi said. “It has become a habit for these people to oppose everything that is happening in the country. The only form of their policy is the opposition, ”he said.
The prime minister, who launched six projects related to the Namami Gange mission in Uttarakhand via videoconference, said opponents of the land reform laws want intermediaries to make a profit at the cost of farmers’ freedom. “Farmers can now sell their products to anyone, anywhere. But when the Center gives farmers their rights, these people are against it. They don’t want farmers to sell their produce on the open market, they want middlemen to make a profit. They oppose the freedom of farmers, “said Prime Minister Modi.
The prime minister also said that the chorus around his government to eliminate the minimum support price (MSP) for agricultural products is “misleading.” “For years, they said they will implement MSP but they never did. This was done by our government in accordance with the recommendation of the Swaminathan Commission, ”he said.
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“Today these people are also sowing confusion about the MSP. There will also be MSP in the country and the farmer will also have the freedom to sell crops anywhere in the country. But some people cannot tolerate this freedom. They are having problems because another way of earning black money has ended, ”he added.
“Today these people are sowing confusion among farmers about the MSP. The MSP will remain in the country and the farmers’ freedom to sell their products anywhere will also remain, ”he said.
On the mission to clean up the Ganges, PM Modi said that in recent decades, great initiatives were taken to clean up the river, but they failed because they had “neither public participation nor vision for the future.”
“If the old methods had been adopted, the situation would have been just as bad today. But we move forward with a new thought, a new approach. We have not limited the Namami Gange Mission to cleaning up the Ganges, but have made it the largest and most comprehensive river conservation program in the country, ”said the prime minister.
Prime Minister Modi also marked the four years of surgical strikes carried out by the Indian army, and said that when the brave military carried out strikes and destroyed the bases of terror in Pakistan, the opposition was looking for evidence. “By also opposing the surgical stoppage, these people have cleared their intention against the country,” said the prime minister.
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