New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to withdraw three controversial agriculture laws will not end the farmers’ protest. They said they would wait till the laws are repealed by Parliament.
“The government should discuss the MSP as well as other issues related to farmers,” the leader said.
In his address on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, Modi said that three agricultural laws would be repealed in the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
Tikait had earlier asked for a resolution against the three agriculture laws by November 26, failing which farmers would gather in tractors at protest sites in Delhi.
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Announcing the decision to repeal the controversial agriculture laws, PM Modi said: “We must have missed somewhere that we were not able to explain to a section of farmers why the three laws were beneficial.”
He said: “We could not convince a section of the farmers for the benefits of these agricultural laws. Many scientists tried to convince them through various means. We listened to the farmers and their comments about their issues with the laws. tried. “
Modi said that the government has changed the old rules to ensure that farmers get proper compensation in difficult circumstances. “Small farmers have been given compensation of over Rs 1 lakh crore. They have also been given health and insurance benefits. We have transferred Rs 1.62 lakh crore directly into their bank accounts,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Ugrahan faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Friday announcement to repeal three controversial agricultural laws.
BKU’s Ugrahan faction leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan said, “This is a good step by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Gurupurab.”
On the PM’s appeal to the protesting farmers to return to their homes, Ugrahan said: “The farmers’ union will sit together and decide the future course of action.”
BKU (Ugrahan), the largest of all the protesting farmer unions, is protesting at the Tikri border. It has a significant presence across Punjab, where elections are due early next year.
Farmers’ unions have been protesting at the borders of Delhi since last year demanding the repeal of three agriculture laws.
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