New Delhi, Sep 20 (UNI) Slamming the BJP led NDA government at the Centre for passing the farm sector bills in the Rajya Sabha amid opposition uproar, the Congress on Sunday termed it as a 'Black Day' in India’s post Independence history.
Hitting-out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government over the farmer bill passed on Sunday,
COngress leader Ahmed Patel said that this day will be recorded as one of the black days in history , as the bills passed and the law which will be coming now is not only against the interest of farmers , but , also against the country's federal structure .
COngress also said that 12 parties have given a no confidence motion notice over the way the bill has been passed , which the Congress leader termed as 'Death of Democracy '.
He said that despite the demand for a division, voting was not allowed , and against this attitude we have given a no confidence motion.
Congress leader Pratap SIngh Bajwa, who was also the lead speaker for the Congress party in the house, said that this was the 'death' warrant for the farmers , especially for the farmers of Haryana , Punjab , Western UP who have fed the people of the country since 55 years .
'it is just like those parents who feed their children and raise them and later they are left to take care of themselves, '
said Bajwa.
'This attitude towards these farmers is very saddening,'he said adding that the agriculture minister did not even talk to thestakeholders before going ahead.
Congress said that APMC was abolished in Bihar during 2006 , and today the agriculture in the state is in maximum distress , as thousands of trucks laden with the produce such as rice , wheat leave Bihar and reaches other Mandis in other states and the money that is supposed to go to farmers is taken away by the traders.
Accusing the government of attacking the spirit of the Constitution through these Bills, Ahmed Patel said that first they brought the land acquisition Act which the farmers did not accept and later they brough the same in some states.
' Now they want to hand-over agriculture in the hands of the capitalists as the APMC is to be abolished , wherein MSP will be taking a hit.
The claim of Maximum Selling Price is baseless and is not backed by facts, 'Patel said.
Accusing the government of wrongly accusing the COngress of abolishing APMC , he said, 'the accusaition is an attempt to distort. They have not read the manifesto completely as there are safeguards kept for the farms on 22 points, on which COngress questioned the government asking whether the government kept any such provisions for the farmers.'
Patel said that after the passage of the Bills, MSP will not be given to farmers and corporates will have control over agriculture.
'All this will go against farmers,'he said.
Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi also said that the way the bill was passed is damaging to the Democracy , and it shows that the government could not have got the bill passed on their strength so they took to such practices.
'They passed it without chorum, and this is sure to be
challenged in and quashed by the Supreme Court,'he said.
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