The talks between farmers’ organisationsand the Union government over
the controversial pieces of legislation governing agricultural marketing
have reached a stalemate. The government is willing to consider a
written assurance to continue with the Minimum Support Prices (MSP)
mechanism, and amendments relating to the registration of private
traders, imposition of cess on marketing outside APMC mandis, legal
recourse for dispute resolution in civil courts, and greater stringency
in issuing licences to private traders. However, farmers’
representatives have unanimously rejected the amendments and also
demanded the withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill.
It is obvious that the firm resolve of farmers’ organisations is driving
the negotiations. But it would be a mistake to regard this unity as a
sudden development. It is the culmination of many streams of joint
struggles, in Punjab and elsewhere in the past several years. The
realities of a deeply differentiated peasantry notwithstanding, there is
unity against the common threat of ceding total control to corporate
houses, which are the obvious beneficiaries of the new legislation.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/farmers-protests-long-march-to-peasant-unity-in-india-building-up-over-decades-now-visible-against-new-farm-laws-2020/article33320513.ece
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