Varanasi: Accusing opposition parties of fear-mongering about the new farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Monday that those who have duped farmers for decades in the name of minimum support price (MSP) and farm loan waivers are now trying to mislead them about these laws through their canards.
Invoking the Ganga, the PM said that he can say from the ghats of the holy river that the steps have been taken with an intent which are as pious as the 'Ganga Jal'. "But some farmers are skeptical as they have been duped for decades," he added.
Addressing a function organised in Khajuri village to mark the inauguration of six-lane conversion of Varanasi-Prayagraj National Highway-19, Modi said: “When governments make policies and laws, it is natural that there will be some questions about them. However, in the past few years, we are seeing a new trend. Earlier, people protested against a decision but now, the protest is not on the decision but on doubts and falsehoods spread about the decision, about what could happen in future. There is propaganda that the decision may be correct but in future nobody knows what will happen.”