New Delhi, India – New Delhi-based schoolteacher Sunita Sharma was very excited about her wedding in November 2019 to her neighbour, an electrician. The 26-year-old had saved up $2,000 from her monthly salary of $200 for the wedding expenses.
But that was not enough. Her mother also had to sell off the family’s small piece of land to buy her only daughter a trousseau – furniture, a television and a refrigerator. The rest of the money went into booking a small wedding hall, hiring a local music band and catering for a party of 200 guests.
However, a last-minute demand from her fiancé’s father sent the Sharmas into a panic. He wanted his son to be given a car as well. Sunita pleaded that a car would be out of their budget as they had already exhausted all their funds. Besides, her father had died when she was 19 and so, as the oldest of four, she had worked very hard to feed her family.
NEW DELHI: While the government has been holding talks with agitating farm unions, BJP has launched a parallel campaign to share with the people advantages of the new farm laws and how they will benefit farmers across the country.
The party has got a comprehensive booklet “Putting Farmers First” printed in different languages, which speaks about how the three laws have been enacted with an aim to double the farmers’ income, a promise BJP had made in its manifesto. Besides the draft of the three farm laws, the booklet has several chapters, including “What Will Not Happen” and “What Will Happen”, explaining how it will help farmers’ income without risking their land-holdings.