Key Union Ministers on Tuesday blamed Opposition parties for “misleading” the farmers and promoting “Bharat Bandh” as they maintained that new laws were made “for the welfare of small and marginal farmers”.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Environment Prakash Javadekar said Opposition parties stand “exposed” for their “hypocrisy”. Javadekar said protests have no basis as APMC and MSP are going to continue and that “90 per cent of farmers are in favour of the new laws”.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said farmers are being misled and that “Bharat Bandh” is being executed by Opposition, not by kisan.
Tomar, who is leading the Government in the ongoing dialogue with the farmers, meanwhile, met Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar ahead of the next-round of negotiations on Wednesday.
Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad again lashed out at the Congress and NCP leaders for “supporting agriculture marketing reforms” when they were in the power and “now jumping into the farmers bandwagon” to “oppose the Modi Government”
“This is deception, double-standards and hypocrisy of the worst order. Farmers interest is not in the scheme of Opposition parties”, ” the Law Minister maintained.
Union textile Minister Smiriti Irani was of view that Opposition parties did not want the country to prosper and thereby putting spoke in the wheels of its progress.
The Opposition parties want chaos and din but they would not succeed, she claimed.
RSS outfit “Bharatiya Kisan Sangh” did not participate in “Bharat Bandh” but backed farmers demand for guaranteeing the MSP for their farm produce.
The Union Government is, reportedly, ready to make certain amendments in the laws to ally the farmers fears but refusing to roll-back the laws which it says are essential for “reforms” in the farming sector which has, long, ceased to be remunerative.
Wednesday, 09 December 2020 | PNS | New Delhi
