Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday told farmers protesting against the Centre’s agricultural laws to not stage agitations in ...
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday told farmers protesting against the Centre’s agricultural laws to not stage agitations in the state and instead do it in Delhi or Haryana, reported NDTV.
“Even today, farmers are protesting at 113 locations in the state and it is affecting our development,” Singh said at a foundation-laying ceremony for a government college in Hoshiarpur district’s Mukhliana village.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhi’s border points since November, seeking the withdrawal of the farm laws passed in September. Ten months later, protests against the laws continue to be staged in many parts of the country.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party-run Central government claims the laws would free up India’s troubled agricultural sector by giving farmers more choice of buyers for their produce, farmer groups say the laws are a ploy to corporatise the sector and would lead to crony capitalism.
In October, Punjab became the first state to formally reject the controversial laws by approving three bills to counter the legislations.
On Monday, Singh told the farm unions that his government has already expressed solidarity with them on the matter, reported News18.
The chief minister advised the farm unions to mount pressure on the central government to withdraw the farm laws.
Singh said that the Constitution had been amended 127 times since 1950....
