Repeal of farm laws: Hundreds of farmers would have been saved had PM’s decision come earlier, says Sanjay Raut
The Hindu
‘Though the decision is very late, the Prime Minister has nonetheless heard the voice of the country for the first time in seven years and I congratulate him on his move,’ says Sena MP
While welcoming that elicited massive countrywide farmer protests, Shiv Sena MP and chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut on November 19 said that hundreds of lives would have been saved had the Government not been so adamant and had withdrawn the laws a year earlier.
The Central Government’s intransigence and apathy at the start of the protests had cost the lives of more than 400 farmers in the form of heart attacks and suicides, but the farmers triumphed in the end, said the Sena leader.
Mr. Raut, along with other leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (of the Sena, the NCP and the Congress) said that the BJP’s rollback of the laws was undeniably motivated by fear of defeat in the upcoming polls in five States, particularly in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.