As Opposition parties upped the ante against the Centre over the contentious farm laws through a series of agitations across the district, BJP is gearing up to organise a farmers’ rally here in support of the acts on Tuesday.
The rally here is part of the BJP’s nationwide programme. It will be held at Zila Parishad Ground and will be attended by former state president of the party Ravindra Rai, besides a host of other leaders.
The party claims over 10,000 farmers will be attendance.
“Congress is taking political mileage by misleading farmers while the Left parties are trying to aggravate the situation,” Dhanbad MP P.N Singh told the media in the presence of four BJP MLAs Raj Sinha (Dhanbad) Dhullu Mahto (Baghmara), Aparna Sengupta (Nirsa) and Indrajit Mahto (Sindri).
“The farm laws will increase the income of farmers But the Opposition parties, led by Congress, who are not concerned about the wellbeing of the farmers, are opposing the bill and giving it a political colour,” said Singh.
He said the good work of Prime Minister Narendra Modi can be understood from the fact that the agricultural budget of the nation for 2020-21 was Rs 1,34,399 crore, almost six times the budget of 2013-14.
“Agricultural production has significantly increased under our rule at the Centre. Compared to 25.54 million tonne of food grain in 2015-16 the production reached to 296.65 million tonne in 2019-20,” he added.
Singh said “real farmers” were happy with the farm laws.
RJD leaders stage a dharna against the new farm laws at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad on Monday. Picture by Gautam Dey
A day-long dharna and demonstration was organised at Randhir Verma Chowk, under the banner of Rastriya Janata Dal, led by the party’s district president Tarkeshwar Yadav on Monday.
The protestors claimed the farm laws would make common farmers subservient to capitalist forces and that the Union government was taking advantage of the acts to abrogate the power of state governments.
Left parties also took out a march against the farm laws. They walked in a procession on Luby Circular Road, Court More and later assembled at Randhir Verma Chowk near the district headquarters.