Farmers from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in favour of farm laws: Minister

By Pramod Kumar Jha New Delhi, Dec 23 : Amid the ongoing farmers agitation along Delhi’s borders, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Kailash Choudhary, said that farmers from Kashmir to Kanyakumari are in favour of the new Union farm laws. However, farmers from certain regions have fallen into the trap of the opposition parties which are instigating them.
The Minister said that the people camping at the borders of the national capital do not represent the farmers of the entire country, but they instead include people indulging in politics in the guise of protesting farmers.
He said the majority of the farmers have come out in support of the agrarian reforms.
The farmers’ agitation has been going on for the last four weeks at the borders of Delhi against the three farm laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government. The protesting farmers are adamant on repealing the laws.
In a conversation with IANS, Kailash Choudhary was asked: When the farmers do not need such farm laws, then why is the government imposing the laws on them? To this question, Choudhary responded, saying, “Farmers from all over the country, right from Kanyakumari in the south to Kashmir in the north and from the border of Rajasthan in the west to West Bengal in the east, are in favour of all the three farm laws, but farmers from specific regions are being misled over these laws. But we hope that if they, too, become aware of the benefits of the new laws soon, then there will not be any question of protest.” Choudhary told IANS that there are apprehensions about the future due to the reforms, but they have started yielding results and the farmers of the country are happy about them, so the negativity surrounding these laws will not last for long.