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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farm bills: Farmer unions in Punjab ask political parties to stay away from their protests -Jatinder Kaur Tur

Farm bills: Farmer unions in Punjab ask political parties to stay away from their protests -Jatinder Kaur Tur

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published Published on Sep 25, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 26, 2020

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On 20 September, the Rajya Sabha passed two contentious bills related to the farm sector— the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. On 22 September, it passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill. The Lok Sabha had earlier passed these bills amid stiff opposition from farmers. The bills introduce changes in the way agricultural produce is stocked, marketed and sold. Farmers in Punjab have been opposing the bills since they were first introduced as ordinances in June. Farmers’ organisations say the new rules will lead to corporate monopoly and fear that it will end the current system built around a government-guaranteed minimum support price, or MSP.

Balbir Singh Rajewal, the president of Bhartiya Kisan Union, a farmers’ organisation, told me that close to 30 farmer unions in Punjab have come under one banner and called for a bandh on 25 September in protest over the farm bills. Supporting the protests, the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, another farmers’ organisation in Punjab, announced a “Rail Roko”—or stop the trains—agitation from 24 to 26 September. “Had these legislations been revolutionary in terms of benefits to farmers, then the farmers would not have left their fields unattended to protest in hot and sultry weather without any water or food on roads,” Rajewal said.

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CaravanMagazine.in, 25 September, 2020, https://caravanmagazine.in/agriculture/farm-bills-unions-ask-political-parties-to-stay-away?fbclid=IwAR0JUrZoZq5dthF3msKdEmKiojMdARbI6edD3LoQCVRWvc4G1N2WjXzqGVs


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