In a stinging remark, the NCP supremo said that the agriculture sector of the country cannot be run sitting in Delhi. “Agriculture can’t be run by sitting in Delhi as it involves hard-working farmers in villages and a bigger responsibility for this subject lies with state governments,” Pawar told news agency PTI. “I and Manmohan Singh also wanted to bring some reforms in the agriculture sector but not in the same way as the current dispensation did. That time the agriculture ministry held long deliberations on the proposed reforms with agriculture ministers of all states and experts of the sector,” Pawar said. In a way, the government bulldozed these three bills.”Had the Centre consulted state governments and taken them in confidence, then such a situation wouldn’t have arisen, Pawar said.

Source: Hindustan Times December 29, 2020 11:59 UTC