Farmers’ distrust of govt will not go away with one rollback: Pilot
The Hindu
“They [farmers] will always view the government with suspicion. We owe our farmers who feed this country a lot more,” Congress leader Sachin Pilot asserted
The BJP’s bypoll 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 on November 23, 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 PTI, Mr. 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.