NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday accused BJP of misrepresenting its election promise on APMCs as it demanded that the government hold a Parliament session to repeal the contentious farm laws and discuss agri reforms.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the three laws were against the interests of farmers which had brought farmers on the agitational path. He said the bandh called by farmers was completely successful and demonstrated that popular sentiment was against the three controversial laws.
Accusing BJP ministers of maligning the farmers’ agitation by alleging that it was funded by foreign forces like Pakistan and China, he demanded that the saffron party apologise to farmers.
Hooda slammed BJP for citing Congress’s 2019 manifesto to claim that it had planned to do away with APMCs. The former CM said the promise actually meant that APMCs, to be called farmers’ market, would be further strengthened and taken to even smaller parts of states to reduce the logistical burden on farmers of transporting their produce to big APMCs.