Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: The Congress Party today held a protest demonstration in Jammu to express solidarity with the ongoing farmers’ agitation.
The protest was organised by District Congress Committee Jammu (Urban) and it was led by former ministers Raman Bhalla and Yogesh Sawhney. Various Congress leaders came out to show opposition to the anti-farmer Farm laws and demand their repeal.
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Hitting out at the Prime Minister for his remarks that farm laws reforms have opened doors of new opportunities for farmers, former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla said that insistence in support of the laws shows that the Government is “drunk with power” and is rigid even in reconsidering the laws. He demanded that Govt should immediately announce the suspension of the three “anti-agriculture” laws.
He attacked the Government over the protest by farmers, alleging “promise was to double farmers’ income, the Modi Government did double income, but that of Adani-Ambani”. “Those who are still defending the black farm laws, what solution will they find in favour of farmers?” he said. He maintained that the laws will pave way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big Corporates.
Sawhney said that the new farm laws passed by the Government are an injustice to the farmers and India. Farmers are the heart and soul of India, and attacking them is the gravest mistake the BJP has made. This is hateful politics and the Congress party will not stand by it. The black Farm Laws are flawed to the core and our farmers deserve better, he said.
He said Congress party and people across country will vehemently support the farmers until the laws are revoked, even if it takes years to do so. “We would not let the Farmers’ livelihoods be threatened by this shameless Government. All states of our country are today collectively advocating for the farmers. Not just the Congress party but common women and men too are raising their voice against these infuriating laws,” Sawhney said.
Many leaders, Kanta Bhan, Manmohan Singh, Gurdarshan Singh, Sanjeev Sharma, Ramakant Khajuria, Pawandev Singh, Vijay Malhotra, Rajesh Sharma, Sobat Ali, Chander Shekhar Sharma, Atul Sharma, Michael Wazir, Sat Pal Spolia and others also accompanied.
Meanwhile, extending support to farmers’ protest across the country, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today said Jammu and Kashmir being agricultural state will suffer immensely due to the new farm bills introduced by the BJP Government at the Centre.
While addressing a party convention in Kulgam, he said, the CPI (M) condemns the malicious campaign launched by the Modi government against the farmers. “We back farmers’ demand to scrap the three pro-corporate farm laws rammed through undemocratically by the BJP Central government in parliament in September 2020. We also demand repeal of the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020, which will greatly hike power tariffs not only for farmers but for all rural and urban consumers in the country,” he added.
Several Sikh organisations including Sikh progressive Front led by Balvinder Singh and others have also supported farmers of the country who are agitating against Farm Laws enacted by Modi Govt. They demanded that laws be withdrawn.
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