DMK with its allies will protest against three farm bills on Sept. 28

  • | Monday | 21st September, 2020

At a meeting at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai which was chaired by DMK president M K Stalin, he said the protest is to condemn the ruling AIADMK government as well which is lending a helping hand to the Centre on the matter.

The Tamil Nadu opposition party DMK with its allies on Monday decided to hold protests across the state of Tamil Nadu on September 28 against the three farm bills brought in by the Central government.

At a meeting at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai which was chaired by DMK president M K Stalin, he said the protest is to condemn the ruling AIADMK government as well which is lending a helping hand to the Centre on the matter. DMK and its allies trough the protest will urge the Centre to take back the farm bills passed in Parliament. 

The passage of bills has once again put a question mark on "federalism" besides pushing poor farmers to a state of suffering, a resolution adopted at the meeting of DMK and its allies said. The bills pave the way for the "anti-social activity of hoarding farm produce," and its passage in the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote without division was autocratic and trampled Parliamentary conventions, the resolution alleged.

The protest planned for next week is aimed at urging the Union government to withdraw the bills that have been adopted in Parliament, it said. "This meeting places on record its strong opposition to the farm bills passed by the Centre which is against the farmers, farm labourers, consumers and the general public and which would cause a setback to progress of agriculture," the resolution said. Also, it condemned the Centre for passage of bills in the Rajya Sabha in "violation" of rules and the AIADMK for its support to the bills.

The meet lent its support for farmers call for a `Bharath Bandh` on September 25 and endorsed views that the Centre`s initaitves pushed the farmers towards big private players. It imposed a "model" that has already "failed" in Bihar which had abolished Agricultural Produce Market Committees, the DMK and its allies said. The parties urged all sections of people, farmers bodies and traders to take part in the protest.


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