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Farm laws ‘outrageous’, Govt needs to shun ‘nepotism’ against Farmers: Agriculturists

Terming the newly introduced farm laws as ‘outrageous’ and ‘nepotism’ being adopted by the central government against the farmers, Agriculturists in the Telangana state has vehemently expressed their resentment and warned the government against such unrealistic adventurism that if implemented would pose a great risk to agrarian activities in the country.

Blaming that the newly introduced Farm Laws are completely based on “zero-sum-mentality”, Abul Fateh Syed Bandagi Badshah Quadri, a prominent agriculturist and Director Telangana Chamber of Trade and Industries Promotion, said “The BJP led central government is trying to impose Farm laws that, if implemented, would otherwise prove as gallows for farmers’ community.

Talking to the media today on the sideline of ‘Bharath Band’ against the controversial farm law brought by the Modi government, he said: “Minimum Support Price” is something like “light at the end of the tunnel” for the farming community in the absence of prospective purchaser in the markets which are always lurked by middlemen and the spoilsport.

Extending his full support to the band called by various farmer associations and labour unions he said, “Today’s protest has reminded the central government that the move it has taken is completely against the farmer and even disapproved by the people.” “The farm laws promulgated by the centre should immediately be quashed and withdrawn without any preconditioning,” he asserted.

This Government is imposing anti-people laws on all sections of the society ever since it came to power and not even spared the peasant community that is largely considered as the breadwinner for the whole nation by forcing anti-farmer laws on farmers. This is just to bring a smile on the faces of corporate houses. At one hand the government is increasing petroleum prices intermittently while depriving the farmers of minimum support price on the other.

After getting cleared in the parliament and got a nod from President Ram Nath Kovind on 27th of September the three Agriculture Bills –  1) Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, 2) Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and 3) Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 has been ratified by the centre that caused widespread protests from farmers community first from Northern states and then spreads through the whole country.

What the central government is imposing on farmers is completely detrimental to the people of the country in general and agrarian activities in particular. The minimum support price is the only support that makes the farmers remain active in the field as there is no proper mechanism available to sell the farm produce with a sense of satisfaction in the markets full of challenges,” Valike Pandu, a farmer at Kanaka Mamidi, Moinabad area.