In the presidential address today President Ram Nath Kovind said that the contentious farm laws have been put on hold on the orders of Supreme Court and the center will stick to it. Despite the governments’ continue efforts of tackling the misinformation about the farm laws they laws are now on hold. President told this in his address on beginning of the budget session which was boycotted 19 opposition parties in the parliament.
The opposition is also in support of farmers for the repealing of the three farm laws.
In his address the President also condemned the Republic Day violence by calling it “very unfortunate”. The violence was in the wake of the tractor rally held for protesting against the farm laws.
“Farmers recently carried out a tractor rally. However, there was violence during the protests and there were incidents of insult to the national flag at Red Fort on Republic Day. This was very unfortunate,” the President said in a statement.
“If the Constitution gives us the right to freedom of expression, it also reaches us to take laws and rules seriously,” he added.
On the rumors regarding the deliberations and benefits of the farm laws he said that the laws were passed with extensive deliberations and have also benefited around 10 crore small farmers.
“Today there are more than 80 per cent small farmers, who number over 10 crore. The biggest beneficiaries of the new farm laws are these small farmers. They immediately started benefiting from these agricultural reforms,” said the President defending the farm laws.
But some opposition MPs including Rashtriya Loktantrik Party’s Hanuman Beniwal and Congress’s Ranveet Singh Bittu demanded the repealing of the laws by raising slogans like “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan.”
