A Night at the Farmer’s Protest
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Thousands of protesting farmers are camping on different highways leading to New Delhi and demanding a rollback of the new farm laws passed by the Narendra Modi government, which they fear benefit corporations at their expense. I have been on road protesting against the law. Government should tell us how it would benefit us. They haven t been able to convince us, Parminder Singh, a farmer from Ludhiana told The Citizen.
The government had passed three bills - The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020- saying it would collectively provide farmers with better marketing options and break the monopoly of commission agents and government regulated market yards.