Maharashtra cabinet minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Wednesday demanded that the Centre start a dialogue at the earliest with protesting farmers to resolve their pending issues, including bringing a law on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for agriculture products.
Addressing a press conference along with Congress' state president Nana Patole, Malik also demanded compensation to farmers who died during the year-long protest outside Delhi against the three controversial agri-marketing laws which are now being repealed by the Centre. The NCP and the Congress are part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week announced that the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protest by farmers for the past year, will be repealed. Modi had insisted the laws were pro-farmers, but added the Centre could not convince a section of cultivators about their benefits.
바카라Unless a law to bring MSP is not passed, demands of the farmers will remain unfulfilled. At least 700 people have lost their lives due to wrong policies,바카라 Malik said. Dialogue is key to resolving any obstacle in democracy, the minister stressed. 바카라Dialogue (with farmers) was first initiated (by the government) in the beginning (of the protest last year). Then the protest was being bulldozed. Now, there is a unilateral announcement that some farmers could not be convinced (so the laws are being repealed).
바카라Was the laws made for farmers or a section of farmers. The way word-play is on is wrong,바카라 Malik said. He said the central government should show a desire to resolve the issue which was missing in the last 15 to 16 months. Malik suggested taking the opposition into confidence on this contentious issue.
Taking a dig at the Centre, Patole said Modi is the 바카라first prime minister whom the country doesn't trust." 바카라The Cabinet has done it (approved the decision to repeal the three laws), but it has to be seen how are laws rolled back,바카라 he said.
Though the organisations spearheading the agitation against the new farm laws have welcomed the Centre announcement of their withdrawal, they have said they will continue their stir in support of other pending demands, including statutory guarantee for remunerative prices for crops.Â
-With PTI Inputs
