Image Source : PTI PM Modi urged farmers to offer farm legal guidelines an opportunity.
Speaking in Rajya Sabha on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the mushrooming of a brand new breed of ‘skilled protestors’. PM Modi used the Hindi phrase ‘andolan-jivi’ to explain a gaggle of people that are likely to hijack each protest or motion that has taken place within the nation within the latest previous.
“We are well aware of some terms like ‘shram-jivi’ and ‘buddhi-jivi’. But, I am seeing that from some time a new entity has come up in this country- ‘andolan-jivi’. This community can be spotted wherever there is a protest, be it agitation by lawyers, students, or labourers, sometimes at the forefront and sometimes from behind. These parasites feast on every agitation,” he mentioned.
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Reacting to PM Modi’s comment, Supreme Court lawyer and activist, Prashant Bhushan mentioned the feedback have been humiliating to the protesting farmers.
“Those to earlier claimed that they have made their political career through protests, are now calling farmers ‘andolan-jivi’ to humiliate them,” Bhushan mentioned in his tweet in Hindi.
Senior Congress chief and Maharashtra minister Ashok Chavan termed PM Modi’s selection of phrases as an ‘insult’ to farmers.
“The farmer is one the key elements which is keeping the humanity alive. Using the word ‘andolan-jivi’ sarcastically for farmers’ agitation is an insult to farmers. It is disrespectful to them. Such usage is unacceptable,” Chavan, who holds PWD portfolio within the Uddhav Thackeray authorities, tweeted.
Thousands of farmers have been tenting at Delhi’s borders since November demanding the repeal of three new agriculture legal guidelines that they are saying will finish the minimal help value (MSP) based mostly procurement of crops like wheat and paddy by the federal government and usher in massive corporates into the farm sector.
They have rejected the federal government’s provide to droop the reforms for 18 months and haven’t joined talks after 11 rounds of talks ended final month.
(With PTI inputs)
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