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Centre's Agricultural Marketing Reforms Are an Assault on Federalism -Pritam Singh

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‘One India, One Agriculture Market’ slogan is an open declaration of the centralising objective of these reforms.

The central government recently introduced major agricultural market reforms through three ordinances: The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, The Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020.

Since the inauguration of the Indian constitution on January 26, 1950, these three inter-linked ordinances constitute the most concerted entry of the Centre into the sphere of agriculture, which was designated a state subject in the constitution.

The various constitutional amendments made after 1950 contributed to a continuing process of invasion by the Centre but the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 takes this process to a higher scale and is certainly the most devastating attack so far on the federal rights of states in agriculture. ‘One India, One Agriculture Market’ slogan is an open declaration of the centralising objective of these reforms.

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