On the second and last day of the monsoon session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the cabinet is set to approve a proposal to amend the Central Agriculture Act. This comes after Sunday’s meeting where core members approved a motion to repeal the act.
Farmers have been camping at the borders of Delhi since November 2020 over the Farmer Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services Act, 2020 and essential demands. The Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 should be withdrawn and a new law should be made to guarantee the minimum support price for crops.
Ahead of the session, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) demanded that the Uddhav Thackeray government should completely repeal the central law as making changes will not help the farmers much.
“Making cosmetic changes in the sections in the disputed agricultural laws will not eliminate the pro-corporate, anti-farmer motives behind the enactment of these laws. The United Kisan Morcha and AIKSCC have sought to completely change the laws rather than demand only minor changes in the provisions. A strong approach has been taken to cancel
Government sources said that a proposal to demand three crore vaccines every month from the Center can also be passed on Tuesday. He said Maharashtra has the capacity to vaccinate 10 lakh to 14 lakh people on a daily basis, but the state has the highest number of eight lakh, while the state has vaccinated the highest number of people at the national level.
Maharashtra may vaccinate its population at the earliest to bring in herd immunity, but the dosage is needed from the Centre, sources said. It is being speculated that the proposal may increase tension between the government and the opposition, a day after the suspension of 12 MLAs has turned tense.
The MLAs were suspended from the Assembly for a year for allegedly misbehaving with the presiding officer Bhaskar Jadhav in the Speaker’s chamber. He later met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and sought his intervention and complained against the MVA government for “trampling democracy”. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that indiscipline cannot be tolerated.
In the morning, BJP MLAs were seen protesting in the state assembly in Mumbai on the issue of suspension of their MLAs and OBC reservation.
Maharashtra: BJP MLAs protest the suspension of their 12 MLAs and OBC reservation issue in the state assembly in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/3cBolNjHYy— ANI (@ANI) 6 July 2021
The Maharashtra Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging the Center to provide 2011 Census data to enable the State Backward Classes Commission to prepare an empirical data of the OBC population, so that the number of its members in local bodies. To restore political reservation.
The Supreme Court earlier this year quashed the reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies observing that the total number of seats earmarked for various communities, including scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, is less than 50 per cent of its total strength. must not exceed.
Earlier on Monday, Fadnavis said the Supreme Court had asked for an empirical inquiry (in the issue of OBC population) through the State Backward Classes Commission. “The apex court has not asked for census data. Sankalp is time pass, face saver and confusing, and won’t give anything. But, we will support the proposal as we want to stand with OBCs.”
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