Under the new ecosystem, the minister said, the mandis are not affected.
NCP president Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is not bringing out “correct facts” on the three farm bills.
His reaction came after Mr. Tomar expressed dismay over Mr. Pawar’s tweets criticising the farm laws, saying they were a mix of “ignorance and misinformation”, and hoped that the veteran leader will change his stand after knowing the “facts”.
In a series of late night tweets in Hindi, Mr. Pawar said, “@nstomar ji is not bringing out correct facts before people. He has been assuring that the new laws will not affect the mandis but farmers unions are of opinion that the provisions under law favour rival companies.”
“Under the new laws, farmers can sell their produce outside mandis but have no protection of MSP when they sell their produce to private buyers. This is what the protesting farmers have been saying since the beginning. It has not…