The greatest forces on the frontline of the present farmers’ protests in Delhi have all been votaries and champions of the identical farm legal guidelines which they’re shredding as we speak, and never too way back
If public reminiscence is unwittingly quick, recollections of these in public life may be wilfully shorter.
The greatest forces on the frontline of the present farmers’ protests in Delhi have all been votaries and champions of the identical farm legal guidelines which they’re shredding as we speak, and never too way back.
Let us take the Congress get together, for example. It is offering the principle equipment behind the protests. Punjab, the state it guidelines and the place by the way the stranglehold of wealthy agricultural middlemen has been the strongest, appears essentially the most shaken by the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines.
Congress president-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi has recently been fairly vocal, in his muddled pop-philosophical manner, towards the farm legal guidelines.
But on web page 17 of its 2019 General Election manifesto, the get together had unambiguously promised: “Congress will repeal the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC) Act and make trade in agricultural produce — including exports and inter-state trade — free from all restrictions.”
Its suspended spokesperson, Sanjay Jha, cheekily pointed it out on social media. “The amendment in Essential Commodities Act is consistent with UPA’s own intent earlier and will benefit what Congress’s FDI in multi-brand envisaged.”
If public reminiscence is unwittingly quick, recollections of these in public life may be wilfully shorter.
The greatest forces on the frontline of the present farmers’ protests in Delhi have all been votaries and champions of the identical farm legal guidelines which they’re shredding as we speak, and never too way back.
Let us take the Congress get together, for example. It is offering the principle equipment behind the protests. Punjab, the state it guidelines and the place by the way the stranglehold of wealthy agricultural middlemen has been the strongest, appears essentially the most shaken by the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines.
Congress president-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi has recently been fairly vocal, in his muddled pop-philosophical manner, towards the farm legal guidelines.
But on web page 17 of its 2019 General Election manifesto, the get together had unambiguously promised: “Congress will repeal the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC) Act and make trade in agricultural produce—including exports and inter-state trade—free from all restrictions.”
Its suspended spokesperson, Sanjay Jha, cheekily pointed it out on social media. “The amendment in Essential Commodities Act is consistent with UPA’s own intent earlier and will benefit what Congress’s FDI in multi-brand envisaged.”
Folks, in our Congress Manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, we had ourselves proposed abolition of APMC Act and making agricultural produce free from restrictions. This is what Modi authorities has achieved within the farmers payments. BJP and Congress are on the identical web page right here.
— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) September 18, 2020
The financial poster boy of the Congress and Indian liberals, Raghuram Rajan, each as chief financial adviser and RBI governor in the course of the Congress-led UPA regime, had prescribed the identical steps that the Narendra Modi authorities has taken.
Raghuram Rajan in Feb 2014..
– APMC Act ought to be amended
– Food costs ought to be decided by market
– MSP just for a decrease stage help
– End Monopoly of middlemen
– Slower improve in MSPshttps://t.co/g0noEX0N7S pic.twitter.com/mSX1Lb0nUp— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) December 2, 2020
“Food prices should be determined by the market and MSPs (minimum support prices) should be used to provide only a lower level of support so that production decisions do not get distorted or the price wage spiral accentuated. This means limiting the pace of MSP increases going forward,” he had mentioned in February 2014. “There is a need to reduce the wedge between what the farmer gets and what is paid by the household by reducing the role, number, and monopoly power of middlemen as well as by improving logistics.”
In 2012, frightened over rising meals inflation, the UPA authorities arrange an inter-ministerial group (IMG) headed by Rajan to chill the costs. The panel agreed to take out inexperienced greens and fruits from APMC to cut back worth losses, middlemen and transaction prices.
A farmers’ organisation based by former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh, the Bharatiya Kisan Union, has been an in depth pal of the Congress recently. It supported the get together within the 2019 elections, after which unusually appeared within the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh to oppose fast-tracked citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring Islamic nations.
Today, it’s protesting the brand new farm legal guidelines. In 2019, nonetheless, it had taken an precisely reverse stance.
In what it referred to as the Kisan Manifesto, it referred to as for “enabling trade and commerce by abolishing laws such as the APMC and the Essential Commodities Act.”
In April 2019 the identical @BKU_KisanUnion that’s as we speak on the forefront of opposing the Farm Bills, had requested for the abolition of APMCs & the Essential Commodities Act in its manifesto. Let that sink in. https://t.co/jZGWTORxIU pic.twitter.com/NwxDmiIy7s
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) December 1, 2020
Considering the Modi authorities has obliged it on each counts, its wrath on the Delhi streets is perplexing, if not laughable.
Lastly, it’s Delhi’s personal grasp of disguise and deception, Arvind Kejriwal, who has pulled off a unprecedented feat. While vociferously opposing the three contentious farm legal guidelines, his AAP authorities quietly handed a kind of legal guidelines within the state Assembly, placing it in pressure in Delhi.
गिरगिट से भी तेज रंग बदलने मे माहिर @ArvindKejriwal ने दिल्ली में नया कृषि बिल 23 Nov 2020 को लागू कर दिया था
लेकिन अब कृषि बिल के ख़िलाफ़ पंजाब के किसानों के नाम पर विरोध कर रहे है।
ये सब कनाडा से लेकर अमेरिका तक से चंदा देने वाले खालिस्तानियो के दवाब कर रही है @AamAadmiParty pic.twitter.com/3QoMmc68aN
— Naveen Kumar (@naveenjindalbjp) November 30, 2020
The BJP mocked and ranted, whereas an exasperated Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh referred to as Kejriwal “this sneaky little fellow”. The captain is unmindful of the irony that Kejriwal can throw the epithet proper again on the Congress this time.
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