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PM Modi last week said new laws will boost farmers income.
Amid the ongoing protest by farmers on Delhi borders against the centre s new agricultural laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet members of the farming community, including Sikh cultivators in Gujarat, during a visit to Kutch district today.
PM Modi will be in Kutch to lay the foundation stones for several projects coming up in different parts of the border district, an official statement said on Monday.
These projects include the world s largest hybrid renewable energy park, a desalination plant and a milk chilling plant.
Before the main event, the Prime Minister, who will be on a day-long visit to his home state, will hold discussions with farmers of Kutch district at the venue.
On Gujarat visit, PM interacts with farmers, local self-help group members
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Last Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 05:30 PM IST
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The separate interactions took place on the sidelines of an event where Modi, on a day-long visit to Gujarat, laid foundation stones for a host of projects in the border district.
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DHORDO (Gujarat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with farmers from Kutch district of Gujarat, including those from Punjab who have settled here, and also members of a local self-help group (SHG).
The separate interactions took place on the sidelines of an event where Modi, on a day-long visit to Gujarat, laid foundation stones for a host of projects in the border district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met farmers on Tuesday, not in Delhi where tens of thousands are sitting on dharna for the past 18 days to demand the repeal of the new farm laws his government has brought, but in Gujarat where he declared that the laws have the support of “almost the entire country”.
“Aaj kal, Dilli ke aas-paas kisano ko bhramit karne ki saazish chal rahi hai (These days, in Delhi’s vicinity, there is a conspiracy under way to mislead the farmers),” Modi said.
After claiming that farmers taking part in the largest such protest in recent memory were “misled”, Modi said his government was willing to hear them out. “I tell my farmer brothers once again, again and again, that the government is ready to solve each of their concerns,” he said.
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The farmers agitation has raised issues of a government catering to crony capitalism and a regressive well-off bunch of farmers standing in the way of progress. I do believe that the former allegation has more than a bit of truth behind it, but not the latter. A largish number of corporates have been dealing with agriculture and farmers for decades, in some cases well before independence, and doing well without the government stepping in with all sorts of laws.