Farmers' Distrust Of Government Will Not Go Away With One Rollback: Sachin Pilot
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Sachin Pilot also called for accountability for the "losses" people suffered both physically and monetarily during the farm laws protests.
The BJP's by-election losses and a "looming bad performance" in the upcoming assembly polls led to the announcement of repealing the farm laws, Congress leader Sachin Pilot said today, asserting that there will be "consequences" for the ruling party in the elections as farmers' "distrust" of the government will not go away with one rollback.
The former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister said the government should not only ensure a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) as demanded by farmers but must also provide a regulation or a law ensuring that procurement takes place.
In an interview with news agency Press Trust of India, Sachin Pilot said no matter what the government does now, it is "far too late" to erase from the farmers' minds the suffering caused during the farm laws agitation.
"In Indian history, such a long agitation by the farming community which lasted for a year, has not been seen. If they had to rollback (the laws) then what was the need to waste lives and livelihoods, so much damage was caused, farmers were called naxalites, separatists, even terrorists and some of the ministers' family even mowing down people," the former Union Minister said.
