India
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New Delhi, Feb 05: The Centre followed “due procedure” before bringing the three new agri laws, and held consultations with states and farmers for facilitating barrier-free trade in farm produce to provide choice to the farming community, Parliament was informed on Friday.
“Due procedure had been followed while formulating the Ordinances/ Bills,” Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
K C Venugopal from Congress and Binoy Viswam from CPI had asked the government to share the pre-legislative consultations followed before bringing the three farm laws and also the number of individuals/organisations/unions consulted for the same.
Citing reasons for “urgency” to promulgate the three Ordinances in June 2020, Tomar said due to disruption of markets and supply chains during the COVID-19 lockdown, there was “utmost need to…