Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Saturday criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that people close to the ruling party were involved in the violence during the tractor parade on January 26 in New Delhi. He said violence had been done to end the credibility of the peasant movement.
Pawar criticized the central government for not accepting peasant demand in a program. He said farmers in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh (along the Delhi border) were performing peacefully. No farmer took the law. There was an incident (on January 26) to end the movement’s credibility. Farmers were not involved in it. According to the complaint, those involved in the violence belonged to the ruling party.
Concerned about the Center’s three new agricultural laws, NCP chief Sharad Pawar has already said that these laws would adversely affect the minimum support price (MSP) and weaken the knee joint system. He stressed the need to ensure MSP and strengthen the system.
Sharad Pawar had tweeted that reforms are a continuous process and nobody would argue against reforms in the APMC or the Mandi system, but this does not mean that a positive debate on this is meant to weaken or destroy the system.
Former Agriculture Minister, during my tenure, tweeted that the draft of APMC Rules -2007 is ready to set up a special market to provide farmers with an alternative platform to sell their produce and strengthen the existing knee system . Pawar was Union Minister of Agriculture from 2004 to 2014. He said there was also concern about the amended essential goods act.
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