PANJIM The Congress party today led a protest march at Raj Bhavan against the farm bills.
The protest was led by Congress president Girish Chodankar and Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat. Several farmers across the State also joined the protest demanding immediate withdrawal of the Bills, terming it ‘anti-farmers’.
The party submitted a memorandum to the President of India Ram Nath Kovind through Goa Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, seeking his intervention and to ensure that these bills are withdrawn and repealed forthwith.
“The Anndata farmer and labourers will never forget the conspiracy of the Modi Government to convert ‘the disaster confronting the farmers’ into an ‘opportunity for the capitalists’ under the garb of pandemic. We urge upon your good self to intervene and ensure that these bills are withdrawn and repealed forthwith,” the party said in the memorandum submitted to the Governor.
The party charged that Narendra Modi led government has unleashed a diabolical conspiracy against India’s farmers and farming sector.
“The Union BJP Government is conspiring to defeat the ‘Green Revolution’ by bringing in the captioned anti-farmer bills. This is a well designed conspiracy to destroy the ‘Anndata’ farmer and the agriculture at the altar of a handful of crony capitalists,” it said.
“The laws were illegally and unconstitutionally passed in Rajya Sabha, without even permitting a division of votes and by using force by deploying marshals and by evacuating the members of Parliament,” it added.