New Delhi, December 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made another attempt to reach out to agitating farmers on their apprehensions regarding the three farm laws while accusing Opposition of “lying, misleading, shedding crocodile tears, destroying the country’s economy, doing event management and not allowing dialogue to take place between the government and farmers for narrow political gains”.
इसे देखने के बाद बदल जाएगी आपकी जीवन शैली,बदलेगा नज़रिया || P K Khurana ||
As he transferred Rs 18,000 crore to around nine crore farmers under the PM-Kisan scheme, interacted with farmers across the country and talked about benefits of the three laws, the prime minister also told his opponents that the government is always open for discussions talks but on issues, facts and logic.
ये है दुनिया का अब तक का सबसे महंगा स्थान, जानिए क्या है इतिहास ?
“Hamari sarkar kisan ke hit main unse baat karne ke liye taiyyar hai, lekin baat muddon par hogi, tarq aur tathyon par hogi (for the benefit of farmers we are always ready to talk but the discussion will be on issues, logic and facts,” he said.
इस पावन स्थान का इतिहास जानना है जरूरी, आपकी आंखें हो जाएंगी नम
Slamming the Opposition—especially the Congress, the Trinamool Congress and the Left—and accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of “blocking the PM-Kisan scheme in her State”, he specifically mentioned small and marginal farmers and differentiated between “politicians” and “innocent farmers” in the agitation.
“There are many ‘sachche kisan’(true farmers) in the agitation, not just politicians,” he said. The prime minister said more than 80 per cent farmers in the country are poor and marginal farmers (“more than 10 crore farmers”) who had been “left to fend for themselves all this while”.
“All those running the agitation (read opposition) were supporting previous governments which did nothing for these farmers,” he said, in a way indicating that terms on which unions are demanding negotiations are not acceptable to the Centre and that there is no going back on the three laws.
“Those rejected by people are doing event management for political survival, they are misleading innocent farmers and not allowing the dialogue to take place between the Centre and farmers…they are adding more issues to the original demand of MSP, extending it release of those jailed for violence, toll taxes etc,” he said.
He told farmers “you can sell your produce wherever you want, where you get the right price, if you want to sell at MSP in ‘mandi’, you can do that, if you want to export it you can, if you want to sell it to a trader, you can, if you want to form FPOs, a value chain, you can also do that. Still, lies are being spread among farmers on MSP and ‘mandis’. Have you heard of a single mandi closing down anywhere in the country?.
-Nav Gill/ Agency
