The coalition for a GM Free India along with various farmer unions, national political parties and diverse social and environmental movements, including Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Greenpeace-India, India Against Corruption, Bharat Swabhiman Trust, Volunteers for a Better India, etc launched a nation-wide campaign demanding that the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2013, be withdrawn immediately.

The dharna held to launch the campaign at Jantar Mantar was attended by hundreds of people from all walks of life. All of them joined hands in solidarity and vowed to fight the invasion of Genetically Modified crops and its proponents like Monsanto, the American multinational seed corporation, into India's food and farming, a media statement read.

"BRAI Bill is one more example of how the current government continues to sell the nation lock stock and barrel and pushes us away from Gandhiji's idea of Swaraj,' said Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party.  

Sitaram Yechury, Politburo Member and leader of the CPI-M in Rajya Sabha called BRAI another American appeasement law by the Manmohan Singh government.

Rajnath Singh, National President of the BJP in a written letter on Tuesday declared his wholehearted support to the struggle against BRAI and GM crops and said that BJP will stand by the interest of Indian public and fight BRAI tooth and nail.