Oppn backing bandh just to oppose Modi govt: Fadnavis

December 07, 2020 18:44

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday targeted the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party and other parties which have backed Tuesday's Bharat Bandh call given by farmers bodies over the Centre's new farm laws, saying they are backing the agitation only for the sake of opposing the Modi government.

Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Fadnavis claimed these parties had earlier backed provisions similar to ones in the Centres farm laws and charged them with being two-faced by opposing the Acts now.

The former Maharashtra chief minister accused the non-BJP parties of supporting the bandh to cause "anarchy" and said that farmers, however, are well-aware of the same and will support the farm laws.

The Congress, the NCP, the Shiromani Akali Dal, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party are among the political outfits which have supported the call for the nationwide shutdown on December 8.

The position of the parties supporting the bandh is two-faced, the Leader of Opposition in the assembly alleged.

Fadnavis said Maharashtra was the first state to enact laws similar to the Centres Acts, against which the protest is going on.

In 2006-07, Maharashtra framed land leasing Act when the UPA was in power at the Centre and the Congress-NCP alliance was ruling the state, he noted.

The model APMC Act, which talks about creation of private APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee), was enacted by Maharashtra during the Congress-NCPs rule, Fadnavis added.

No existing APMC was shut due to the model Act, the BJP leader said.

The Congresss 2019 manifesto said the party would annul the APMC Act if came to power. On December 27, 2013, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said during a press conference that in the Congress-ruled states, vegetables and fruits will be deleted from the APMC Act.

"Now, the Centre has done the same thing. But the Congress is opposing it now," former chief minister said. -- PTI

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