Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa said the Bills were “ill-conceived and ill-timed” and that farmers in Punjab, his home State, and Haryana viewed them as attacks on their spirit. He said farmers had understood the Bills to be a way of doing away with MSPs and take-over of farmlands by corporations. All-India Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien questioned the government’s credibility and said the Bills raised an issue of federalism. Balasubramoniyan said the Bills would lead to farmers being “reduced to farm workers” and big corporations taking over “large swathes of land”. DMK’s T.K.S Elangovan said the Bills were “an insult to farmers” and would lead to farmers “becoming slaves” and “commodities”.

Source: The Hindu September 20, 2020 07:50 UTC