As agitation continues, Amit Shah says ‘doubling farmers’ income biggest priority of govt’

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that doubling the earnings of farmers was one of the biggest priorities of the Narendra Modi government and the three newly enacted agriculture laws ensure their increased income, reported PTI.

“I want to say that if there is any big priority of the Narendra Modi government it is to double the farmers’ income,” he said at an event in Kerakalmatti village in this district in Karnataka.

“The Narendra Modi government is a government dedicated to farmers. Three new laws that the Modi government has brought in, which the Karnataka government has also passed…,” he asserted.

“I want to congratulate Yediyurappa for it. Farmer’s income will increase multifold due to them,” Shah said.

Meanwhile addressing farmers in Nagpur, Bhartiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that farmers’ agitation in Delhi will continue until the Centre repeals the laws, reported ANI.

“If a few lakh farmers are camping at the borders of Delhi, why is the government not repealing the farm laws? I think the agitation will continue,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the government expects farmers to discuss the three farm laws, clause-by-clause, in the next round of talks scheduled for Tuesday, ANI reported.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday had stayed the implementation of the three laws and formed a four-member committee to resolve the impasse between the Centre and the protesting farmers.  

Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at various border points of Delhi for over a month now against the three laws — the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act.