New Agri Laws Will Enslave Farmers, Says Rahul Gandhi, Offers Support to Bharat Bandh

Coinciding with the nationwide farmer’s agitation, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi issued a three-minute video chat with farmers discussing the three farm Bills recently passed by Parliament.

Mr. Gandhi held a video chat with 10 farmers from Haryana, Bihar and Maharashtra, discussing the new agricultural laws. The farmers expressed concerns that the laws will enable corporate houses to buy their produce below the Minimum Support Price rates. They also said the government should ensure any person buying produce below the MSP rate should be deemed illegal and should be made a punishable offence.

The farmers also feared that the new laws will help the big business houses to buy their land and reduce them to farm workers. The farmers also said these laws are like the return of the East India Company, to which Mr. Gandhi quipped, “There was an East India Company, now there is a West India company.”