‘Have Taken A Step Back, Will Move Forward Again’: Agriculture Minister Tomar On Farm Laws

Tomar also used the occasion to hit out at the critics of the three farm laws and reached out to the farmers.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. (File Pic/Getty)

Nagpur: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government repealed the three farm laws, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said the ruling dispensation is disappointed but will move forward again.

“We brought the agriculture amendment laws. But some people did not like these laws, which, after 70 years after Independence, were a big reform under (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi’s leadership,” he said at an event here on Friday.

Tomar also used the occasion to hit out at the critics of the three farm laws and reached out to the farmers.

“But the government is not disappointed. We moved a step back and we will move forward again because the farmers are India’s backbone. If the backbone will be strong then the country will definitely be strong,” he said, adding the agriculture sector has always supported the country’s economy.

The Agriculture Minister’s remarks came in the wake of the Central government’s recent decision to repeal the three controversial farm laws in view of the year-long agitation by the farmers’ unions.

The bill to repeal the three contentious farm laws was passed by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha without any discussion on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament on November 29.

The protesting farmers called off their year-long protest earlier this month after the Central government sent them an official letter accepting most of their demands.

The farmers called off their protest after the ruling dispensation promised to form a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and withdraw all cases registered against them with immediate effect.

The farmers were on a sit-in protest since November last year against the three farm laws.