Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee president cum State Finance and Food and Civic Supplies Minister Dr. Rameshwar Oraon has said that the amendments made in the three laws related to agriculture will not only affect the farmers, but it will affect more than 80 per cent population of the country.
Oraon said that with the change in the economic activities of the country and the world after the Corona period, a large industrial house of the country has started trying to establish its dominance over the retail business and in this work and the the BJP led Central government is amending the rules to benefit them. He said that the business of retail market in the country is more than 12 thousand billion, to capture this retail market, besides big companies of the country; some foreign companies have also come forward.
In the same sequence, Ambani's company signed an agreement with WhatsApp's owner Mark Zuckerberg for an investment of Rs 55 thousand crores, while Google company is also preparing to enter the retail market.
State spokespersons Alok Kumar Dubey said that before the amendment of the agricultural law, there were different laws in the states regarding agricultural produce, but the Central government amended this law to make it available for the cooperation of its capitalist friends. Now big companies will be able to purchase agricultural produce from anywhere through their agents and take it outside the state limits.
State spokesman Lal Kishorenath Shahdev said that even before this there was no restriction on the purchase and sale of agricultural produce within the State border, but by creating confusion, the work has been done to mislead farmers and now made such rules. Now, there will be no need for the capitalists to take any license in different states regarding agricultural produce.
State Spokesperson Rajesh Gupta Chhotu said that the ability to store essential commodities under the guise of the new agricultural law was also made unlimited, the capitalists would be able to keep their produce as much as possible according to their wishes, so that their action cannot be taken under effective law to curb hoarding against hoarding, this will increase the prices and increase the hardship of farmers as well as the common man.