Shimla: Defending the Centre’s new farm laws, BJP Kisan Morcha national spokesman Kamal Soi said that had the existing legislations been beneficial for farmers, so many of them would not have committed suicide. Talking to during his visit to Shimla on Friday, he said, “In Punjab, 700 to 800 farmers commit suicide in a year.”
A resident of Ludhiana district in Punjab, Soi further stated that 95 per cent agricultural land in his state has been mortgaged to banks as farmers are under the burden of Rs 125 lakh crore debt.
Had existing farm laws been beneficial for the farmers, so many of them would not have committed suicide facing burden of huge bank loans.
That is why the Union government enacted the three new farm laws for the benefits of the farmers but they are being misled, he said.
Soi said he had difference of opinions with the agitating farmers but he went to the Singhu border in December and distributed 500 jackets and other items to them on humanitarian grounds.
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