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Centre trying to bring back three farm laws through back door
The New Indian Express Dharmapuri
|March 17, 2025
THE Modi-led union government has been trying to introduce the three farm laws, which were repealed after protests by farmers near the New Delhi border, through the backdoor in the Draft National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing, said All India Kisan Sabha general secretary Vijoo Krishnan.
He was speaking at a seminar in Thanjavur on Saturday ahead of the CPM national conference. Krishnan, who is also a CPM central committee member, pointed out the 378-day struggle by the farmers on the New Delhi border resulted in BJP losing 38 seats. "If BJP had got 400 seats as claimed by it before elections, it would have changed the Indian constitution to make India into a religious Hindu Rashtra," Krishnan added. He also pointed out that the
This story is from the March 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Dharmapuri.
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