‘Hurting the farmers? How? Ask us one question we can’t answer’: Nirmala Sitharaman

By: ENS Economic Bureau | New Delhi |

September 28, 2020 4:36:45 am





Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in Lok Sabha during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. (Photo: Screengrab @ LSTV via PTI Photo)

POINTING OUT THAT her Cabinet colleague Narendra Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, had wide-ranging consultation with all stakeholders including the Opposition before introducing the three reformist farm Bills in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Congress and other political parties were doing a “disservice”, particularly after having professed the same reforms in their own manifestos.

In an interview to The Indian Express, she said, “I am not…

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