Ex-army official says farm laws favoured corporates

Former army officer Suvedhar Veer Singh accused the Modi government of bringing the laws in favour of the big corporates which would harm the farmers. Singh also accused the Modi government of hijacking EVMs to win the elections.

Ghazipur: Former Army officials, who have come out in support of protesting farmers, have accused the Modi government of hijacking EVMs for coming to power.

Ex-army officer Suvedhar Veer Singh said, "This government does not think for the welfare of the farmers. It favours big corporates like Ambani and Adani. Modi government got sweeping majority as the party tampered EVMs and if this continues, the saffron party will win again.

"The farmers are firm with their stand and we will continue to raise our voice against measures which throttles democracy. In order to dethrone this government, there must be ballot paper votings," he added.

The former army officials who have joined the ongoing farmer protest at Delhi-Ghaziabad border said that the government should immediately roll back the three 'black laws'.

"Earlier, few leaders used to protest against EVM tampering, but after joining the saffron camp, they have also stopped raising this issue. BJP is a corrupt government. We will not let the opposition parties mislead the farmers on the agri-sector laws. This is a farmers' movement and few anti-social elements are trying to tarnish the image of annadattas. I appeal to the people of our country to stand with the farmers," Veer Singh added.

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The former official also hit out at few Haryana farmers for backing the farm laws and called them 'dalaal'.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court today indicated that it may form a committee having representatives of the government and farmer unions across the country to resolve the deadlock over farmers protesting at several roads near Delhi borders against the three new Agri laws saying 'it may become a national issue'.

Several rounds of formal talks have taken place between the Centre and the representatives of thousands of protesting farmers since November last week, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, but the deadlock has continued with the unions sticking to their main demand for a repeal of the three contentious laws and repeatedly rejecting the government's offer to make certain changes in the legislation and give written assurances or clarifications on a few issues such as the minimum support price (MSP) and the 'mandi' (wholesale market) system.

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