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The agriculture laws passed in the parliament in September are yet to be accepted by farmers and now the farmer organisations have announced yet another campaign against the new laws, from November 26.
The agitation will be in Delhi. The Lok Sabha passed two farm bills — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020.
The farmers’ organisations who have given call for protest in Delhi said if they are stopped from entering the national capital they would block the road leading to Delhi from all the sides. A joint forum of 500 farmers’ unions have come up collectively to make a joint forum in Chandigarh. The leaders said they would protest outside the parliament and if denied permission still they would march towards the parliament.
‘We do not know how long the protest will go on but we know that we won’t stop until our demands are met. The farmers plan a stay of up to 4-mounth,’ said Gurnam Singh Chachuni, chief pf the Bhartiya Kisan Union, Haryana unit.
He said, ‘The government can’t stop us from entering Delhi and if they (government) does so we have alternative plans.’ He however did not disclosed the alternative plan.
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Hannan Mollah, the 7-time MP from West Bengal and president All India Kisan Sabha said the protest will end only when the new laws are scrapped. He said farmers from Telangana, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states will also participate in the protest. The Punjab farmers’ organisation have planned 11 tractors loaded with farmers from each village.
The government, while passing the bills had said the new laws will give better option to farmers to sell their produce. Some experts had praised the new laws but many farmers’ organisations are in opposition.
Parliament had passed two bills aimed at transforming agriculture in the country and raising farmers’ incomes. The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 which were passed by Lok Sabha on 17th September 2020, were passed by the Rajya Sabha also.
The Bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on 14th September 2020 by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, to replace ordinances promulgated on 5th June 2020.
