Hyderabad: The TRS is fully prepared for a long battle against the new farm laws enacted by the Centre and will extend all support to farmers to safeguard their rights and interest, the party’s working president and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao said on Tuesday.
The Minister was addressing a massive gathering of people participating in the rasta roko at Burgula tollgate on the Hyderabad-Bangaluru National Highway near Shadnagar as part of the Bharat Bandh called in protest against the new laws.
Stating that farmers were protesting on Delhi roads for the past 13 days braving the bone-chilling weather conditions against the new agriculture laws, he said the three agricultural laws newly enacted by the Centre were in no way beneficial to farmers and would, in fact, only aggravate the farm crisis. “It is for this specific reason that the TRS is opposing these laws. Rather than supporting the farmers, the Central government is favouring corporate powers,” he said.
The Minister found fault with the Centre for abolishing market committees under the new agriculture laws, indicating that the Union government lacks democratic spirit. He stated that about 85 per cent of farmers in the country were small and marginal who were not in a position to transport their produce to other States and sell as was being claimed by the Centre.
“These small and marginal farmers are neither in a position to foot the transport expenditure nor fight the corporate powers. The new farm laws will not only hurt farmers severely, but also impact domestic consumers who will be forced to purchase essentials as per the prices fixed by the corporates,” he said. He pointed out that even if there was a high price for a crop in one State and farmers from other States manage to transport their produce to compete, the local farmers will suffer losses.
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