Centre Welcomes Sharad Pawar's "Don't Reject Farm Laws But Tweak" Stand
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In January, Sharad Pawar had said the new farm laws would adversely affect the minimum support price and the mandi system.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar's reported view that the Centre's new farm laws need not be rejected totally and, instead, must be tweaked to remove controversial portions was today welcomed by the Centre. The Narendra Modi government is willing to reconsider the areas that seem problematic to farmers who have been agitating for over six months, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said today. Breaking News...????NCP chief Sharad Pawar called for the need to make certain amendments in three Farm Laws, asserting that they need not be rejected in their entirety????He said that parts of contention by farming community could be amended instead of scrapping three laws. pic.twitter.com/AjzMOK7Yui Thousands of farmers have, since November 2020, been protesting against the Central government's three agricultural laws passed last year: the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. Mr Pawar, a former Union Agriculture Minister himself, yesterday said that certain amendments can be made to the three farm laws instead of rejecting them in their entirety, according to government news channel Doordarshan.More Related News