Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the nation at 9 am. In a stunning U-turn, the prime minister has decided to repeal all three agricultural reform laws that have sparked almost a year of massive protests by farmers. He said his cabinet will take the decision next month.
“We have decided to repeal all three farm laws. We will start the constitutional process to repeal all the three laws in the parliament session that starts at the end of this month,” Modi said in an address.
The farmers started their protest after the BJP government tabled three farm laws in India that were passed in September 2020. The farmers have been protesting again the bills since August 2020.
Lacs of farmers were on sit-in protests around Delhi borders demanding that the farm laws be rolled back. The Modi Government argued that the bills would revolutionize Indian farming. The farmers, however, stated that the bills were introduced to help the corporate friends of Narendra Modi by privatisation of Indian Farming.
During these months long protests around 800 farmers died, however, the Government has said that it has no data of deaths at the site of the farmers protests.