Responding to a question on farmers’ outburst against two corporate houses (Adani and Ambani) as they believe the farm laws will only benefit them, Tomar said he would not consider such people farmers who either initiate or end discussions taking names of these corporate houses.
Noting that taking names of these corporate houses in any discussion was only meant to divert attention from real issues, the minister said farmers’ representatives should ideally stick to issues which were being discussed with the government.
Appealing to farmers’ unions to come for talks, Tomar said the answer to any ‘andolan’ (movement) in history was not ‘andolan’. “Solutions can be found only through discussions and I am confident to arrive at solutions through discussions in the coming days,” he said, adding that he was pained at farmers’ plight in this cold and pandemic situation.