CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and All India Kisan Sabha vice president S. Ramachandran Pillai on Friday called for a united effort at the national level to resist the ‘anti-democratic and anti-farmer policies’ of the BJP-led government. The three farm Bills introduced by the Centre recently abysmally fall short of legal and constitutional principles, he added.
He said the Bills would practically hand over the vulnerable agriculture sector to Indian and foreign corporates, Mr. Ramachandran Pillai said, inaugurating a sit-in outside Raj Bhavan organised by the Samyuktha Karshaka Samithi as part of a nationwide stir against the legislation.
“’The decision to promote contract farming, for instance, will estrange farmers from farmlands and markets. Farmers will be relegated to the position of corporate labourers,” he said.
In its hurried effort to get the Bills cleared by Parliament,…