Congress MP claims farm legal guidelines will scrap APMCs, fails to level out the place does it say so

On February 9, a number of members of Parliament expressed their views on the brand new Agriculture legal guidelines and ongoing farmer protests. Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu expressed his opinions on Agriculture legal guidelines in Lok Sabha. During an virtually 22-minute lengthy speech, he made some claims however failed to supply any rationalization.

‘APMC markets will be scraped’ – Did Singh point out clauses with out studying them?
While speaking about The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Singh claimed that in clause 3 and clause 5, it’s written that personal markets will likely be established and APMC markets will likely be scrapped. Anurag Thakur, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, interrupted him instantly and requested the place it’s written that the APMC markets will likely be scrapped?
Congress MP caught LYING in Parliament.Fails to reply which clause says“Mandis will be scrapped”.Watch this 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/Udx5eM124M— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) February 9, 2021
Confused by the rebuttal from the minister, MP Singh tried to re-read the clauses however apparently couldn’t discover the precise factors which may again his claims. He stored on saying that clause 3 and clause 5 have the supply for a similar, however in actuality, clause 3 and clause 5 haven’t any point out of APMC markets being scrapped.
Does America pay 40,000 billion {dollars} in subsidy to its farmers yearly?
MP Singh claimed that the United States paid USD 40,000 billion in subsidies final 12 months to its farmers. However, the quantity was USD 46 Billion in 2020. Singh in some way multiplied the subsidies by thousand and forgot to verify how a lot is the overall federal price range of the United States that stands at USD 4.829 trillion or USD 4829 billion. He additionally claimed that the federal government would carry Google and WhatsApp within the Agriculture sector. Interestingly, Google and WhatsApp wouldn’t have any Agriculture enterprise in India or in any other case.
Clause 3 doesn’t even discuss APMC markets
Clause 3 of the stated regulation permits the farmers to do inter-state buying and selling. It says, “Subject to the provisions of this Act, any farmer or trader or electronic trading and transaction platform shall have the freedom to carry on the inter-State or intra-State trade and commerce in farmers’ produce in a trade area.” How Singh reached the conclusion that it means scrapping of APMC markets is obscure.
Clause 3 of The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 (Source: egazette.nic.in)Clause 5 talks concerning the digital buying and selling platforms however not about APMC markets
Clause 5 states that any particular person with a PAN quantity or required paperwork as prescribed by the Central Government or farmer producer group or agricultural co-operative society is allowed to ascertain and function an digital buying and selling and transaction platform for inter-state and intra-state buying and selling of the produce. It additionally states that will probably be the duty of the creator of the platform to make sure honest practices and organize logistics and so forth. The clause additionally provides energy to the federal government to formulate legal guidelines for such platforms if the federal government thinks it’s important for honest commerce.
Clause 5 of The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 (Source: egazette.nic.in)Clause 5 says, “(1) Any particular person (apart from particular person), having a everlasting account quantity allotted beneath the Income-tax Act, 1961or such different doc as could also be notified by the Central Government or any farmer producer group or agricultural co-operative society could set up and function an digital buying and selling and transaction platform for facilitating inter-State or intra-State commerce and commerce of scheduled farmers’ produce in a commerce space:
Provided that the particular person establishing and working an digital buying and selling and transaction platform shall  put together and implement the rules for honest commerce practices akin to mode of buying and selling, charges, technical parameters together with inter-operability with different platforms, logistics arrangments, high quality evaluation, well timed fee, dissemination of pointers in native language of the place of operation of the platform and such different issues.
(2) If the Central Government is of the opinion that it’s vital and expedient within the public curiosity so to do, it could, for digital buying and selling platforms, by guidelines (a) specify the process, norms, method of registration; and (b) specify the code of conduct, technical parameters together with inter-operability with different platform and modalities of commerce transaction together with logistics preparations and high quality evaluation of scheduled farmers’ produce and mode of fee, for facilitating honest inter-State and intra-State commerce and commerce of scheduled farmers’ produce in a commerce space.”
Again, there isn’t any provision of scrapping the APMC markets in clause 5.
No tax on commerce is an issue, says MP Singh
MP Singh additional stated that there’s a provision that there will likely be no tax on the personal markets, which is able to result in lesser commerce within the APMC markets as there are state charges and state taxes relevant in APMC markets. The provision is in clause 6, but it surely solely states that the state can’t impose any cess or levy beneath State APMC Act or another state regulation.
Clause 6 says, “No market fee or cess or levy, by whatever name called, under any State APMC Act or any other State law, shall be levied on any farmer or trader or electronic trading and transaction platform for trade and commerce in scheduled farmers’ produce in a trade area.” It is comprehensible that if the farmer has determined to promote the produce out of the APMC market, it’s already out of the proximity of such State Acts. Thus, State won’t have the authority to impose any tax on the commerce.
Yogendra Yadav is behind Red Fort violence, claimed Singh
Towards the top of his speech, MP Singh claimed that Yogendra Yadav and his occasion is behind the violence that occurred on the Red Fort. He stated that if the federal government eliminated him from the protest web site, the communication between farmer unions and the federal government could be smoother, and the decision will likely be reached shortly. He additionally claimed that Khalistani terrorist group Sikhs for Justice had introduced a day previous to the Republic Day that they’ll hoist the flag on Red Fort at 11:30 AM, which they did.