Ghaziabad: BJP’s MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar on Wednesday backed get together’s Lok Sabha member Kangana Ranaut’s remarks on bringing again the three farm legal guidelines that have been withdrawn by the Centre in November 2021 after an intense protest by farmers.
Gurjar, the MLA from Loni meeting section in Ghaziabad, made the assertion at the same time as Ranaut withdrew her remarks that kicked up a political furore. The ruling BJP had by then distanced itself from her feedback.
“What Kangana Ranaut mentioned was that there have been useless our bodies hanging within the farmers’ motion, the entire nation and the world have seen this. However nobody needs to listen to the reality. The farmers of this nation are demanding in all places right this moment that the Prime Minister, who has labored to alter the lives of farmers and the poor, ought to implement these payments,” Gurjar mentioned in a video assertion.
“On this, I totally help what Kangana Ranaut has mentioned. This isn’t the primary time I’m saying this. I’ve been saying this since day one,” the MLA added.
Nonetheless, the BJP lawmaker, who had briefly hogged the limelight for allegedly intimidating a gaggle of protesting farmers at Ghazipur, backed Kangana’s remarks. Ghazipur border on Delhi’s outskirts was a key website of farmers’ stir towards the farm legal guidelines.
Gurjar mentioned the Narendra Modi authorities has labored for bettering the lives of farmers, who contribute majorly to the GDP.
“There was an online of middlemen (aadhti). Farmers couldn’t take their produce and promote it wherever. Policemen used to harass them. All these provisions have been eliminated and three new provisions (payments) have been introduced which have been aimed to uplift the farmers,” he mentioned.
He additional claimed that when these payments got here, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait had mentioned that his father’s dream had been fulfilled as ‘Baba’ (Mahendra Singh) Tikait, had saved preventing for all three payments.
“However then Khalistanis, ISI and all these folks received lively (on this). I’m not saying this, it’s a confirmed factor. The tricolor was taken down. They might have created a scenario like Bangladesh. So this was a matter of protest by the farmers,” he mentioned.
Ranaut on Wednesday withdrew her remarks calling for bringing again the three farm legal guidelines and mentioned these have been her private opinions and didn’t signify the get together’s stand. The actor-politician had mentioned that since she was a BJP member now her statements must be in keeping with her get together’s insurance policies.
The Congress on Tuesday had shared Ranaut’s video on X during which the actor-politician mentioned: “Farm legal guidelines which have been repealed must be introduced again. I feel this may occasionally get controversial. The legal guidelines in farmers’ curiosity be introduced again. Farmers ought to themselves demand this (to deliver farm legal guidelines again) in order that there isn’t a hindrance to their prosperity.”
“Farmers are a pillar of energy in India’s progress. Solely in some states, that they had objected to farm legal guidelines. I attraction with folded fingers that farm legal guidelines must be introduced again within the curiosity of farmers,” she had mentioned.
The proposed payments of Farmer’s Produce Commerce and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act; The Farmers (Empowerment and Safety) Settlement of Value Assurance and Farm Companies Act; and The Important Commodities (Modification) Act — have been repealed in November 2021.
The farmers’ protest that began in November 2020 concluded after the Parliament repealed the three legal guidelines in November 2021.