Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that the new agriculture reforms have not only freed peasants from various shackles but have also bestowed on them new rights and opportunities, this statement came amid ongoing protests by a section of farmers against new farm laws.
Modi in his Mann ki Baat said the recent agriculture reforms have begun solving the troubles of farmers in a short span of time as he cited the example of a Maharashtra farmer who used the provisions of the new laws to get the money promised to him by a trader. "Since ages, these demands of farmers which at one point of time or the other all political parties had promised to them, have now been fulfilled. After deep deliberations, Parliament recently passed farm reform laws," he said.
PM added "These reforms have not only freed the farmers from various shackles, but have also given them new rights and opportunities. In such a short span of time, these rights have started reducing the problems of farmers". The time at which such a positve remark was made, the country is seeing thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana gathered at the city's Burari ground, united in their determination to hold protests against the new farm laws.
