Friday, January 1, 2021
Seeking to mount pressure on the government ahead of the upcoming round of talks on Monday, the farmers’ unions on Friday said they would further intensify their protests during next two weeks, beginning January 6, if their core demands - repeal of three central farm laws and legal guarantee to MSP – are not met in the meeting. A day after announcing that an alternative to repeal of laws was not feasible, th
A 35-year-old farmer died by suicide over alleged harassment by an electricity distribution company at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur. In a note that the farmer, Munendra Rajput, left behind, he requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hand over his body to the government to "sell every part of my body and repay dues".
The protesting farmers will intensify their agitation at Delhi borders if the centre declines their demands of a repeal of the three agriculture laws and giving legal status to the minimum support price guarantee in the next round of talks, scheduled on January 4, politician Yogendra Yadav, speaking on behalf of the farmers' unions, informed on Friday.
As the seventh round of talks between the famer groups and the central government will be held on Monday, farmer groups said on Friday that they would intensify their agitation if the government failed to resolve their demands for the repeal of the three controversial farm reforms and a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) during the meeting.
Justice D.Y. Chandrachud in Shafin Jahan vs K.M.Asokan (2018) held: “The choice of a partner whether within or outside marriage lies within the exclusive domain of each individual. Intimacies of marriage lie within a core zone of privacy, which is inviolable….The Constitution guarantees to each individual the right freely to practise, profess and propagate religion.”
KERALA - Moving the resolution, CM Pinarayi Vijayan said the central Farm Laws have been brought about to help the corporates. “The three contentious agriculture laws were passed even without sending them to the standing committee of the Parliament. If this agitation continues, it will severely affect Kerala, which is a consumer state,” he said.
मोदी सरकार द्वारा किया गया एक और दावा ग़लत पाया गया है। अब पता चला है कि सरकार ने नए कृषि कानूनों को लागू करने से पहले किसीनों की सलाह नहीं ली थी। इस बात का ख़ुलासा एनडीटीवी द्वारा दायर की गई एक आरटीआई से हुआ है। इससे पहले सरकार दावा करती आई है कि उसने कृषि कानून लाने से पहले किसानों के साथ बातचीत की थी।
योगी सरकार द्वारा बनाया गया विवादस्पद धर्मांतरण विरोधी अध्यादेश उत्तर प्रदेश के लिए संकट बन गया है। इस अध्यादेश की वजह से राज्य में नफ़रत और कट्टरता को बढ़ावा मिला है। ये बात 100 से अधिक पूर्व नौकरशाहों ने सूबे के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ को एक पत्र लिखकर कही है। पत्र लिखने वालों में पूर्व राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार शिवशंकर मेनन, पूर्व विदेश सचिव निरुपमा राव, प्रधानमंत्री के पूर्व सलाहकार टीकेए नायर भी शामिल हैं।
बीते साल मोदी सरकार द्वारा लाए गए नागरिकता संशोधन कानून और एनआरसी के खिलाफ देशभर में विरोध प्रदर्शन किए गए थे। इस दौरान देश की राजधानी दिल्ली में कई विरोध प्रदर्शन भी हुए, जिनको डिस्टर्ब करने के लिए कई बार हिंसा की कोशिश की गई। कहीं फायरिंग तो कहीं पत्थरबाजी भी हुई। ऐसे ही एक हिंसक वारदात का चेहरा बना दिल्ली का कपिल गुर्जर, जो शाहीन बाग के प्रदर्शनकारियों पर गोली चला रहा था।
Three Bills on agriculture reforms – The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 – were introduced in the Parliament on September 14 to replace the ordinances issued during the lockdown.
What are the three Bills? The Bills which aim to change the way agricultural produce is marketed, sold and stored across the country were initially issued in the form of ordinances in June. They were then passed by voice-vote in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha during the delayed monsoon session this month, despite vociferous Opposition protest. The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, allows farmers to sell their harvest outside the notified Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis without paying any State taxes or fees. The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, facilitates contract farming and direct marketing. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, deregulates the production, storage, movement and sale of several major foodstuffs, including cereals, pulses, edible oils and onion, except in the case of extraordinary circumstances. The government hopes the new laws will provide farmers with more choice, with competition leading to better prices, as well as ushering in a surge of private investment in agricultural marketing, processing and infrastructure.
On September 27, 2020, the President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to three agriculture bills — The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020.
Despite reaching an agreement on exempting farmers from the penal provisions of stubble burning under an ordinance on air quality in the capital, the Centre does not plan to take action until all other issues with protesting farmers groups are also resolved. Asked about the timeline to amend the ordinance, Agriculture Ministry officials noted that only an “in-principle” agreement has been reached during Wednesday’s negotiations with protesting farmer leaders.
The Kerala Legislative Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution seeking the withdrawal of all the three contentious agricultural laws enacted hurriedly by parliament in September. "At a time when the agricultural sector is facing a major crisis, the Central government has introduced and passed three new laws in Parliament that will have a major impact on the agricultural sector," said Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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