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Congress delegation will meet President and submit 2 crore signatures against farm laws
Farmers have said they are ready for talks, but the govt should send a concrete proposal for that to happen
NEW DELHI: The ongoing farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three contentious farm laws entered its 30th day on Thursday. Farmers unions protesting against three farm laws that aim to liberalise the agricultural economy said on Wednesday that they will not restart negotiations until the Centre draws up a new agenda, presenting an increasingly difficult challenge to a Union government trying to find a way to end a month-long agitation on the Capital’s borders.
Withdrawal of farm Bills demanded
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Members of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee staging a protest in Kalaburagi on Wednesday.
Demanding that the Centre withdraw the farm Bills passed by the Parliament, members of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) and the Raita Karmika Dalita Ikya Horata Samiti staged a protest near Mahatma Gandhi Statue outside the Indira Smarak Bhavan in Kalaburagi on Wednesday.
Former legislator B.R. Patil and Congress leader Allam Prabhu Patil demanded that the Union government withdraw the three new farm Bills - the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill 2020, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill 2020, that were passed in Parliament.
Without an appropriate regulatory mechanism, deregulation is detrimental to farmers’ interests.
The central government has unilaterally pushed ahead the passage of the three farm bills in a manner that falls short of democratic procedure. These bills, namely the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, have opened up agricultural marketing and trade to facilitate a greater participation and role for the private and corporate sectors.
The liberalisation of agricultural marketing is touted to enable better price realisation that is supposed to favour the farmers, but in effect these new arrangements threaten to weaken the existing system of government procurement at guaranteed prices at APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee)
’s farm bills more contentious?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s farm bills the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 passed in Parliament during the last few days of its monsoon session, have led to a series of repercussions. Ranging from a union minister’s resignation from the cabinet, to ubiquitous protests by the parties in the opposition, to incidents of farmer suicides and call for pan-India strikes by various farmer organisations, to a state government’s decision of moving the apex court in the country all actions demanding the withdrawal of these bills are predominantly rested on the allegation that these bills are detrimental to the farmers’ interests, especially of the smallholder farmers who dominate the agricultural landscape of India. With the bills providi
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