Narendra Tomar slams Congress, Akalis for reversing stand on agri reforms
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Narendra Tomar slams Congress, Akalis for reversing stand on agri reforms
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NEW DELHI: On a day the Supreme Court stepped in to help resolve the stand-off over the new farm laws, the government doubled down on its outreach to protesters, with agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar seeking to demolish the “wall of lies erected by vested political interests” to mislead farmers about the provisions of the trio of farm enactments. In an 8-page letter which was flagged by PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, the minister seemed to target Congress, Left-aligned farmers’ unions, AAP, Akali Dal, experts “who have gone back on their advocacy for the same set of agricultural reforms now posing as neutrals”, and farm unions who had “resiled from support” expressed for the laws only recently.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-12-18
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India