“On The Same Page As BJP”: Sanjay Jha Reminds Congress In Farm Bills Row
Sanjay Jha was once suspended by means of the Congress in July for “anti-party actions” (Document)
New Delhi:
The Congress and the BJP are “at the identical web page” so far as the farm expenses are involved, suspended Congress chief Sanjay Jha tweeted Friday afternoon, stating that the Narendra Modi govt was once merely doing what the Congress had promised to do forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
In an previous tweet Mr Jha, whom the Congress suspended in July, stated the amendments to the Crucial Commodities Act (one in all three farm bills passed by the Lok Sabha the day before today amid opposition walk-outs) have been “in keeping with UPA’s personal intent… will get advantages what Congress’s FDI in multi-brand envisaged”.
“People, in our Congress manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections we had ourselves proposed abolition of APMC Act and making agricultural produce unfastened from restrictions. That is what Modi govt has performed within the farmers’ expenses. BJP and Congress are at the identical web page right here,” Mr Jha’s tweet learn
“Bipartisan politics, please!” any other stated.
BJP IT Mobile leader Amit Malviya was once amongst the ones to reply to Mr Jha’s tweet and, unsurprisingly, praised the previous Congress spokesperson as the one individual to have if truth be told learn the occasion’s manifesto.
“The one individual, who turns out to have learn the Congress manifesto, recalls it and is appalled on the duplicity of its management, who’re comfortably in a foreign country, whilst the Parliament is on and vital steps to empower farmers are being taken…” Amit Malviya tweeted.
The one individual, who turns out to have learn the Congress manifesto, recalls it and is appalled on the duplicity of its management, who’re comfortably in a foreign country, whilst the Parliament is on and vital steps to empower farmers are being taken…. https://t.co/OtqVDoGrjy
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) September 18, 2020
Amit Malviya additionally tweeted the hyperlink to a newspaper article from February 2012 (when the Congress-led UPA was once in energy) wherein then Top Minister Manmohan Singh prompt states to amend the APMC.
“Congress can forget about their manifesto however how about Dr Manmohan Singh?” Amit Malviya stated.
Level 11 of the phase of the Congress manifesto that offers with Agriculture, Farmers and Farm Labour says: “Congress will repeal the Agricultural Produce Marketplace Committees Act and make business in agricultural produce – together with exports and inter-state business – unfastened from all restrictions”.
One of the most expenses handed by means of the Lok Sabha the day before today does simply that – the Farmers Produce Industry and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Invoice provides farmers the selection to promote their produce at aggressive costs any place within the nation.
Then again, the farmers are protesting – led by means of huge agitations in Punjab-ruled Congress – as a result of they concern they’re going to now not get a Minimal Reinforce Value. Opposition events have denounced the expenses are “anti-farmer” and declare the agriculture sector shall be left to the destiny of company pursuits.
Nowadays, whilst addressing a digital release of a railway bridge in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the “misinformation being spread” that farmers can be short-changed by means of the expenses.
