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New Delhi, Dec 06: Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three agri-marketing related laws without making ‘this a prestige issue” as farmers are protesting against these new legislations.
Chowdhury said the three laws are “anti-farmer” and corporate-friendly, and they will end up ‘hurting’ farmers’ earnings.
‘I request you not to make this a prestige issue,” he said in a letter to the prime minister. “The government must bow to the supreme will and aspirations of the people and accordingly repeal the farm laws at the earliest, as the livelihood of millions of farmers is at stake,’ he said.
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