TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Farmers are still agitating because ministers of the Modi government have failed to present any “alternative” to the three new agri laws, the Samuykta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 41 farmer unions, said on Wednesday. The SKM is leading the protest against the three central farm laws at several border points of Delhi.
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address in Lok Sabha, SKM leader Darshan Pal said that union leaders have only been raising the “genuine” issues of the farmers.”The agitation has been continuing because the ministers of the Modi government have not been able to come up with any solid alternative to the new laws or the MSP (minimum support price), despite 11 rounds of talks,” Pal said in a video message.
It is “absolutely clear” that the new laws will finish government mandis (wholesale markets) and private mandis where big corporates will sell and buy will have monopoly, he claimed. “What is the problem and your (prime minister’s) objection if both the mandis remain,” Pal said referring to one of the new farm laws of the Centre.
