Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) staged a sit-in demonstration at Bapu Vatika, Morabadi and conducted a Raj Bhavan march on Monday. The event wasled by JPCC Chief Rameshwar Oraon and JPCC In Charge cum AICC General Secretary, RPN Singh.
The eight-member delegation of JPCC handed over a memorandum to Governor Droupadi Murmu addressed to the President of India and demanded the withdrawal of the laws. Apart from Singh and Oraon among those who interacted with the Governor included, Congress Legislature Party leader Alamgir Alam, Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu, MLA Pradeep Yadav, Bandhu Tirkey, Executive President, Irfan Ansari.
A large number of Congress workers and senior leaders participated in the protest. This nationwide protest organised by the Congress party to demand the withdrawal of the laws “arbitrarily passed” by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government at the Center, without holding sufficient discussion in both the houses of the Parliament.
Talking to media persons during Raj Bhawan March, Singh said that the Modi Government at the Center is an anti-farmer and anti-development Government. “The three laws brought by the Government are a plot to end the Green Revolution. The landlord system, which was abolished by the Congress party, the present Government at the Center trying to bring back by ignoring the voice of 62 crore farmers of the Country. The Congress party will fight for their rights of the farmers until the withdrawal of these black laws,” he added.
Addressing the gathering at Bapu Vatika Oraon said that the “black laws” brought by the BJP Government are anti-farmer. “Through these three black laws, the livelihood of farmers, farm labourers, small shopkeepers and workers has been attacked. There is a conspiracy to pledge the hard work of the farmers and labourers of the Country. Nothing mentioned in these laws about the safety net of minimum support price for crops produced by farmers. Only the capitalists will benefit from contract farming,” he added.
Congress Legislature Party Leader, Alamgir Alam said that the abolition of the stipulated limit of grain storage will promote black marketing by the capitalists and the big traders which will determine the rate of grain.
“This law is a curse for the poor and farmers of the Country. Through these laws, the BJP wants to enslave the farmers for the capitalists. But the Congress party and the Country’s farmers did not let BJP and Prime Minister Modi’s nefarious plans be successful,” he added.