Shah leads ministers in big outreach to farmers
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Shah leads ministers in big outreach to farmers
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NEW DELHI: On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed opposition parties for their stand on three farm laws, a host of Union ministers reached out to farmers with home minister Amit Shah assuring that the agri-reforms will not do away with the minimum support price (MSP). The ministers joined people from different locations to listen to the PM’s speech and have interactions with the farmers. “Opposition parties are left with no issues. They are spreading pure lies. PM Modi has clarified, our agriculture minister has repeatedly said and I am making it clear once again that the MSP will always remain,” Shah asserted while addressing a “Kisan Chaupal” at Mehrauli here. Shah said the three farm laws are in the interest of farmers and will not cause any harm to them. “Neither mandis will be closed nor an inch of farmers’ land will be taken away. As long as Narendra Modi is the PM of this country, corporates can’t take land from farmers,” he said. The home minister dared opposition parties to explain as to which part of the three laws says that mandis will be closed. “Please come forward with the provision which says so … we are ready for discussion,” he said, adding that several delegations of farmers had met agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar to extend support to the laws. Shah said the government is ready to hold talks with farmers’ unions about any of the provisions about which they have apprehensions. “For decades, farmers kept demanding that MSP should be increased, which was not done by the Congress and PM Modi has done it,” Shah said. Defence minister Rajnath Singh was in Dwarka, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan was in Odisha, railway minister Piyush Goyal was in Meerut and textiles minister Smriti Irani was in Amethi to listen to the PM’s address.
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The Times of India
Date
2020-12-26
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India