Farmers Movement Archive

Min: Pb has provisions to jail farmers

Shimla: Claiming that existing farm laws in Punjab have the provision to send a farmer to jail, Union minister for commerce and industries Piyush Goyal said the Centre had scrapped such clauses with the new laws to ensure no farmer was sent to jail or fined. He said new laws were in farmers’ interest so they should study its provisions after which they would understand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was their wellwisher and working for their welfare. Interacting with media in Shimla, Goyal said some, people for political reasons or due to some other force behind them, had “mislead a small section of farmers” on new farm laws. He said farmers were being mislead that under the new laws farmers would lose their land while the truth was that no one could touch their land under these laws as so many provisions had been made to protect their interests. He said under new farm laws a farmer whenever wanted could scrap a contract to sell his crop elsewhere if he was getting better price and there would be no fine for this. He said while keeping the old arrangements intact, new farm laws provided newer opportunities and markets to farmers.

The Times of India

2021-02-28

Chandigarh