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Bhopal, Nov 19 (PTI) Senior Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh on Friday welcomed the Centre"s decision to repeal the three contentious farm laws, terming it a victory of farmers and democracy, and said it would have been better if the rollback was carried out earlier as it would have saved the lives of several protesters.
The farmers protesting against these three laws braved severe heat, cold and rains and spent several nights on the streets, leading to around 600 of them losing their lives, and they were labeled terrorists, anti-national and middlemen, but they did not relent, Nath said in a statement.
“The Congress openly supported their (farmers") demands and now after a year on the occasion of the Guru Nanak"s Prakash Parv, the Modi government has been forced to announce their repeal.
We welcome it,” Nath, a former chief minister and current Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, said.
“It is a victory of justice, truth and the tough struggle of the farmers which has forced an arrogant and stubborn government to bow down.
If the people of the country continue to teach such lessons to the BJP (an apparent reference to the poor show of the ruling party in the recent bypolls), then they will always win like this,” Nath added.