Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said that the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were entirely responsible for the violence and chaos that erupted during the farmers’ agitation in Delhi on Republic Day.
He further exhorted the Centre to cast off its intransigence over the amended farm laws and immediately repeal the contentious legislations.
“The Modi government did not discuss the new laws with anyone but merely imposed them on the farmers before consulting them. The erstwhile Manmohan Singh-led UPA as well as the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA governments used to take all parties in confidence before formulating any vital legislation and implementing it,” Mr. Chavan, a former Maharashtra Chief Minister, said.
The Congressman said that previously, legislation used to be discussed in a parliamentary committee before it was enacted, so that the laws had a comprehensive vote.
“But Prime Minister Modi has steamrolled the three agriculture laws despite not…