Modi anti-farmer, Not land acquisition but life acquisition ordinance: Rajiv Shukla

CHANDIGARH: Exposing what the party lambasted as its anti-farmer face, the Congress today targeted the Narendra Modi government for its betrayal with the farmers and dubbed the amendments to the land acquisition legislation by this government as the Life Acquisition Act.
Former Union Minister and Member of Parliament, Mr Rajiv Shukla said the one year rule of the Modi government could appropriately be described as “Kisan Virodhi-Narendra Modi”.He said while Modi was busy ‘beating drums’ and ‘playing violin’ from Japan to Mongolia, a grave agrarian crisis of unprecedented scale was overshadowing the farm sector exposing food security of the country to risk. This epidemic catastrophe resulted from the intentional indifference and cruel mal-governance of BJP-led NDA Government, which was deaf to the agony and anguish of the farmers and had failed to respond to their concerns.
He took on the Modi government for its failure to keep its promises made to the farmers including Swaminathan Committee report on the fixation of minimum support price and bringing more crops under this system. Moreover, there was acute shortage of fertilizers. Farm exports had dipped substantially and suddenly.Area under agricultural had fallen pointing to mismanagement in the farm sector under one year goal of Modi government.He said to top it all, catering to the needs of a few crony capitalist friends, Mr Modi was hell bent upon grabbing farmers most prized and primary possession – their his land. Mr Modi’s land ordinance was actually Life Acquisition Ordinance. What was shocking was that this government had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court expressing its inability on February 6 last describing Swaminathanm formula as a distortion. Having been cheated and short charged, India’s farmer stands at cross roads today. The increase in MSP of various crops under this government had been negligible as compared to the UPA regime.