Only the Opposition, including the Congress, has talked of changing the agriculture law: BJP

New delhi date. 7 December 2020, Monday

Farmers are protesting against the new agriculture law and the BJP has hit out at the opposition.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "Opposition parties have jumped into the peasant movement. As these parties continue to lose elections, they rise up against the government and forget the promises they made in the past. The 2014 Congress election manifesto promised to end the APMC Act." Rahul Gandhi convened a meeting of Congress-ruled chief ministers in 2013 and said that markets for farmers should be made free.

Former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar also wrote a letter to the states appealing for freeing the farmers' market. Sharad Pawar himself said that it was necessary to change the APMC Act. Need to bring.

"These parties are not called by the farmers but they still want to go with them. Different states have implemented contract farming to increase the income of the farmers. Most of them were Congress-ruled territories," Prasad said.

"As the law minister, I am saying that neither the farmers' lands will be leased nor it will be their turn to sell them. Attempts are being made to confuse the farmers," he said.