Day before 83rd birthday, Sharad Pawar hits the streets to oppose ban on onion exports

Joining the rasta roko staged by farmers on the Mumbai-Agra national highway against the Centre’s decision to ban onion exports till March 31, 2024, the NCP chief demanded that the ban on the export of the kitchen staple be lifted immediately and that he will personally raise the issue in the ongoing session of Parliament in Delhi.

The Centre’s decision to ban onion exports till March 31, 2024 elicited a sharp reaction from onion growers and traders in Maharashtra which is the largest producer of onion, grown mainly in Nashik, Dhule, Pune, Ahmednagar and Solapur districts.

“Nashik can show the way,” said Pawar while sensing the anger among onion growers across the region. He further added that the union government was ignoring the “hard work of the farmers” and said that the cultivators need to be united and demand what is rightfully theirs.