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Lucknow, October 6, 2020: Mounting a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Central government, UPCC President Mr Ajay Kumar Lallu on Tuesday said that three laws recently passed by Parliament have been imposed on the country’s farmers to hand over the agriculture sector to capitalists, which we will not let happen under any circumstances. There is a nationwide movement against draconian farm laws by Congressmen under the leadership of Mr Rahul Gandhi, said Mr Lallu in a statement.
Stating that there is a massive response to the Kisan Nyay Yatra in Uttar Pradesh and the other parts of the country, Mr Lallu said that a tractor rally from Budhana Mor in Muzaffarnagar was organised against the three black farm laws of the Central government. He said that these legislations are aimed at promoting corporate farming and benefitting capitalists. The UPCC chief said the exclusion of pulses, edible oil, potato and onion from The Essential Commodities Act will promote black marketing.
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He said that no mention of MSP in new laws — The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 – is the biggest ever act of betrayal against farmers, who have now been left at the mercy of market and capitalist forces.
UPCC president Mr Ajay Kumar Lallu said that by destroying the existing system of grain, vegetable and fruits market, the government is hell bent upon crippling the farm ecosystem to benefit capitalists. He said the mandis ensure proper rate and weight for farmers, which the BJP wants to dismantle.
He demanded that under One Nation, One Support Price, one rate should be fixed for grains, fruits and vegetables for the state and the whole of the country as well. The provision of the MSP should be incorporated in new legislation and should be ensured that farmers do not get less than the MSP against any of their produce.
He said that 86.4 per cent farmers, with less than two acres of land, will be out of the new competitive arrangement. They will be deprived of rights and their status will be that of labourers. The BJP government has enabled the traders to indulge in hoarding and black-marketing. There will be instability in prices of essential items and other grains. The black marketing will become rampant only to break the spine of common people, who are already reeling under the corona pandemic, financial hardships due to job loss, but the insensitive BJP governments at the Centre and in the State lost in their monstrous slumber.
The UPCC chief said that the new legislations enacted by the Centre will render the farmers powerless and hapless on one hand, on the other, lakhs of families who are getting their livelihood from the marketing boards will be in trouble as a large number of people who are employed there will be jobless. The development works, which are being carried out with the income of the marketing board, will also come to a halt. He reiterated that the Congress party would continue opposing three farm legislations of the Central government tooth and nail, right from the streets to Parliament and Vidhan Sabha till these are not withdrawn. Kisan Yatra was organised by UPCC Vice President and former MLA Pankaj Malik, former MP Harendra Malik
