Modi
Government and Farmers Bill: The Real Story
I was in school
when late PV Narasimha Rao opened up India to foreign
companies and industries. Then there was a huge furore
that we will be enslaved by
foreign companies like that of East India company once
again and we will become Ghulams of foreigners. Leading
the pack who protested were Indian companies like Bajaj
who had a monopoly on two-wheelers and Hindustan Motors (
Ambassador which was the only car available ) and then the
usual suspects like Communists (they were still powerful
in those days) Workers' union leaders and media.
I never understood why we should
protest when we are getting Fords, Hondas, to the Indian
market as it will create more jobs and give us better cars
than those old obsolete model Ambassador cars. I was like we should also start
growing like China, Japan, Korea & Western world
which had just gone through almost complete
destruction & annihilation in just concluded Scond
World War (WWI).
But Dad said we are protesting
as we are afraid of the unknown. We are content staying
poor and malnourished with the so-called Hindu Rate of
Growth (about 3.5%). The protests went on all five
years during the PVNR rule and he eventually lost after 5
years.
Today
everyone says he was the man who truly liberated India
and today if we are 5th biggest Economy, it is due to
his policies.
The same thing happened when computers came to India.
They said it will take away jobs and everything will be
controlled by software companies. But today India is a
Software Powerhouse and it has created millions of jobs. I
also remember the hue and cry when BANK OPERATIONS WERE
COPUTERIZED. Same thing was repeated by Left, Unions and
others. NOW JUST IMAGINE WHERE
WE WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD BANK OPERATIONS HAD NOT BEEN
COMPUTERIZED at that time and government had bowed to
the pressure of these people who have VESTED INTEREST
IN KEEPING PEOPLE POOR, DEPRIVED, ILLITERATE.
Now AGRICULTURE REFORMS
are happening after 74 years of independence. First
time farmers will be free from the clutches of middlemen and
dalals. It is middlemen who
become millionaires in India while farmers are always
in debt and the consumers land up paying more and more
for food and commercial crops every year.
These middlemen are so powerful people that they
form the backbone of many parties like NCP, Akalis, Punjab congress, and many
other regional parties. Hence no one tried to
tamper with Agriculture Market Reforms. Once when Indira
Gandhi was told to control these middlemen, she quipped back
"Should we stop contesting elections!!"
Many of my family members and
relatives are in controlling positions in APMCs and they
are all crorepatis. Many of my family members and
relatives are farmers and I have always seen them only
struggle in their lives.
Once I met a famous professor at MIT who was working on the
National Agriculture Market (NAM) in India where the Indian
govt had asked him to design an All India model to connect
all the markets of India. His team worked on it for two
years and told the govt we can’t
create a NAM until we allow farmers to sell in an Open
Market. He told me the same and said in 2018
that Modi Govt if it wins in 2019, will bring in huge Agricultural Reforms in the second term
which will double or treble the farmer income and since
they make 60 percent of the Indian population
And this will truly transform
India.
Hence, I was rooting for Modi to come back and
bring these reforms. These agricultural reforms are
bigger than what PVNR did in 1991. India will truly
become a middle-income country as more and more people
will get fruits for their labour.
Yes, many farmers are apprehensive. They say MSP will go and
hence it is a loss. The govt will continue MSP and mark my
words after a few years no one will need MSP as farmers will
be selling to the best market and making more money than
MSP.
They say big corporations will monopolise and control
farming. Same was told when GM, Ford, Toyota, and Honda came
or when McDonald’s or KFC came. But the fact is GM ran away
from India and Maruti Motors controls 51 percent market
share and Honda has 3 percent.
The same way Market forces and
proper Regulations will never let someone control the
whole farming. It is too big, too diversified for any
company to do it. And most importantly the Digital Tech
and Artificial Intelligence will transform market
intelligence send make every farmer access to any good
market without selling it to dalals or a big company.
Now the democracy has truly reached Agriculture and farmers
have got their independence.
Dear friends, a lot is being
discussed about the Farmers Bill... The issue was
always that the farmers were not getting the right
price... The farmers were dependent on the MANDIS
which were controlled by the politically powerful
families... this bill will stop that...
FRIENDS IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE...
IF WE CAN’T COMMUNICATE THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO THE
NATION... DEMOCRACY IS USELESS....
One of the foremost and first
Farmer Friendly Step has been taken by this Government
in this Monsoon Session. APMC Act is one of the most
transformative reform in Agriculture post-Independence.
Two Bills on this legislation are passed in Lok Sabha,
soon it will be an Act.
After this, Farmers will be allowed to sell their
crops to the best buyer. Whosoever will purchase crop at
the highest rate will buy directly from Farmer.Farmers
will now not be forced to sell it to Mandis. Politicians
who are playing Politics especially the Akali Dal is
just because they have huge Nexus in Mandi and
Procurement of Crops!
Similarly, the Yadavs have a stake in Sugar Cane
Producing Farmers similar to the Pawar Family in
Maharashtra. Politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Badal
Family, and Pawar Family have looted Farmers most by
purchasing crops at low rates. Now
Farmers are Free.
Commercialisation and Corporate Farming will now
increase competition and Farmers will be benefited the
most. Many Agro-based Start-Ups are coming and
already working in linking Farmers directly to customers
bypassing Mandis. Mandi Politics is over and three
years back, All Mandis have been made Digital by E-NAM
Project and there too it is mandated to allow Farmers to
sell product by Bidding.
PM Narendra Modi is working on Farmers
Improvement for the past six years and it is his
constant and consistent effort that now Farmers are
truly Independent and Now they don’t need to Do 'जी
हुजूरी' of Politicians.
Kudos to the PM Modi & his Government.
My only advice to everyone: don’t get
misinformed and Explain to people. I know these
Political Drama Planners will do Drama but they knew
this for a year, Why Resignation Drama now !?!
JAI
HIND. JAI BHARAT. JAI KISAN. JAI JAWAN. JAI VIGYAN.
Edited and Forwarded by Capt Ravi
Mahajan (Retd.)