: Bill to cancel three farm laws gets president’s nod #IndiaNEWS President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday signed the Bill to cancel the three farm laws that have faced protests from farmers across the

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Bill to cancel three farm laws gets president’s nod #IndiaNEWS
President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday signed the Bill to cancel the three farm laws that have faced protests from farmers across the country for a year, NDTV reported. The farmers had expressed fears that the central government’s laws would make them vulnerable to corporate exploitation and would dismantle the minimum support price regime.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 19 had announced the decision to repeal the farm laws during the Winter Session of the Parliament.On Monday, the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, was cleared in less than five minutes in the Rajya Sabha. On the same day, the Bill was also passed in Lok Sabha within minutes after Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar introduced it.The lack of discussion in both the Houses on the Bill had elicited strong reactions from the members of the Opposition parties. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that lack of debate on the Bill showed that the government understood its wrongdoings.He also claimed that the government, by passing the Bill quickly, denied them the opportunity to discuss the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and the deaths of 700 farmers during the agitation. Compensation to farmers’ families has featured on the list of demands made by Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmers’ organisations, to...Read more

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