Opposing the Bill, Congress MLA from Patan, Kirit Patel said, “We would have supported the Bill, had it been for the welfare of farmers. This Bill has been brought in only for those BJP office bearers who have started private market yards at the cost of crores, but which are not yielding them benefit.”
The Gujarat Assembly, on the last day of the monsoon session, passed a Bill amending Gujarat Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1963, which makes the entire state a “unified market” where a trader can buy farmers’ produce from anywhere. The opposition Congress staged a walkout calling the Bill “anti-farmer” and “pro-corporate”. The…
