New Delhi: Former minister in Jharkhand and senior Congress leader KN Tripathi on Saturday urged the government to repeal the controversial farm laws for which a large section of farmers are protesting for the last 40 days.
Earlier on Friday, amid freezing temperatures in Delhi and adjoining areas, a farmer from Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh died near Ghazipur border after which the veteran Congress leader visited the spot and halted there for a night.
"The government should listen to those who are ready to sacrifice their lives and repeal the agricultural laws which are anti-farmers. Neither the farmers nor the opposition demanded this law. But, the government passed this law at the time of the pandemic", said Tripathi.
He further alleged that this law would enable the corporate sector to manage the overall food industry in the country.
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The Congress leader said this would hamper the structure of Food Corporation of India (FCI) as the total control would be handed over to the industrialists of this country.
The farmers protesting under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha have been demanding the withdrawal of the three laws and legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) which is declared every year by the Centre for 23 crops while the government has assured them that it will accept their two more demands related to stubble burning and electricity subsidies.
Farmers' protest is going on at Singhu border, Tikri border and Ghazipur border amid severe cold condition in Delhi and NCR as the mercury plummeted to 1.1 degree Celsius on the New Year's day on Friday.
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