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Explainer: Do Farmers Have Reason to Criticise the Draft Seed Bill?
Rakesh Tikait recently said if the farmersâ movement had not taken place, the Centre would have enacted the Seed Bill by now. What makes it problematic?
Representative image of millet seeds. Photo: IFPRI/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Rights6 hours ago
Jaipur: The Narendra Modi government’s draft Seed Bill, 2019, has once again caught headlines with farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait bringing it up during his recent call to cut power lines to 16 states if the Centre does not address farmers’ demands.
Tikait had stated that if the farmersâ movement had not taken place, the government would have enacted the Seed Bill by now, in an effort to benefit private seed companies.
Many MPs Are Agriculturalists , but Why the Disconnect Between Parliament and Farmers?
One would have thought that with over a third of Lok Sabha MPs self-identifying as an agriculturalist , there would have been a more nuanced parliamentary debate on the farm laws and the concerns expressed by protesting farmers.
Parliament House. Photo: Reuters
Government28/Jan/2021
It is more than a little ironic that as India witnesses its biggest farmer protest in decades, nearly 40% of the current Lok Sabha MPs claim to be “agriculturalists”.
As the agitation enters into the sixth month â and perhaps its most delicate moment, in the wake of the Republic Day controversy â one of the questions that needs to be asked is who the actual farmers are. The ones sitting inside parliament and passing laws or the ones protesting on the streets?