Farm Laws: Western UP Farmers extend support

NewsBharati 21-Dec-2020 12:29:14 PM

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Lucknow, Dec 21: Farmers from Western Uttar Pradesh have extended their support to the new farm laws. This was established after a delegation of Hind Mazdoor Kisan Samiti (HMKS) met Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and submitted a representation extending their support to the new farm laws.

Hind Mazdoor Kisan Samiti is the seventh farmers union that has extended support to the farm laws in the last two weeks. The previous groups were from Haryana, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

HMKS Secretary Satish Kumar said, the association fully supports the new farm laws that are in the interest of the farming community and will end farmers' exploitation done by middlemen, since ages.

आज मेरठ उ प्र से आये "हिन्द मजदूर किसान समिति" के प्रतिनिधियों ने नए कृषि सुधार बिलों के समर्थन में ज्ञापन दिया और प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी का आभार व्यक्त किया।
उन्होंने कहा कि ये सभी बिल किसानों के हित में हैं व इन्हें वापस नहीं लिया जाना चाहिए।#FarmersWithModi pic.twitter.com/MjvWtMpJZO
— Narendra Singh Tomar (@nstomar) December 20, 2020

He said, HMKS urged the government to consider some amendments in the new law to ensure that the MSP procurement continues. Farmers have the freedom to sell their produce within and outside mandis and that contract-farming should be based on crops and not on farm land.