Farmers continue their warpath against recently passed farm laws. Political leaders are misleading people on farm laws to fulfill their own agenda. The protests have prompted a flurry of misinformation online, shared by politicians from across party lines, and by individuals both for and against the farmers.
Some comments in reaction to the post claim the farmers' protest is being exploited by groups with other agendas, such as the Kashmir dispute or independence for Sikhs in the state of Punjab. The government has been firm that the new laws are going to bring an ecosystem that will give farmers the freedom of choice to sell and purchase their produce inter-state and intra-state.
Farmers across the country are apprehensive that if the new bills become law, they will not get the MSP they have been demanding from the government for months, as the proposed legislation does not specify any method of determining the "guaranteed price" farmers will get.
KG VILOP, Chorao
