Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday prolonged his help to the farmers’ protest which has been happening for over 200 days and stated at the same time as “massive crisis builds, government policies fail to reflect their concerns”.
Farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at Delhi’s borders for seven months in protest towards the three legal guidelines.
The authorities and farmer unions have held 11 rounds of talks thus far, the final being on January 22, to interrupt the impasse and finish the farmers’ protest. Talks haven’t resumed following widespread violence throughout a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26.
“It’s been over 200 days since farmers began protesting against farm laws and demanding their livelihoods be protected. Expenditure on farms far exceed farm incomes. But even as massive crises builds, government policies fail to reflect their concerns,” Gandhi stated on Instagram.
He additionally shared an nearly two minute video of farmers producing espresso in his Parliamentary constituency of Wayanad in Kerala which claimed they’re in deep misery.
Enacted in September, the three farm legal guidelines have been projected by the Centre as main reforms within the agriculture sector that may take away the middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce wherever within the nation.
The protesting farmers, alternatively, have expressed apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the best way for eliminating the protection cushion of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and cast off the ‘mandi’ (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of huge corporates.
