Congress government including BJP’s controversial farm legislations as reference for KAPC irks farmers’ leaders

The Congress government including controversial farm legislations that had been brought in and later withdrawn by the BJP-led government at the Centre as the reference points for the Karnataka Agriculture Prices Commission has ruffled the feathers of farmers’ leaders and agricultural economists who had expressed their ideological support to the Congress. Taking exception to a reference made to these rolled-back laws ) by the government’s communication to the KAPC, prominent farmers’ leaders who had actively participated in the farmers’ struggle in Delhi against them, have now written an ‘emergency public letter’ to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, expressing shock and also warning him that they would have to take to streets if this was the government’s stand. Under the banner of ‘Samyukta Horata – Karnataka against the anti-farmer and labour policies of the Centre and the State’, which had earlier participated in the national farmers’ struggle against the Centre’s legislations, several prominent farmers’ leaders and social activists including Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha President Badagalapura Nagendra, Karnataka Janashakti President Noor Sridhar and KRRS & Hasiru Sene President H.R. The other leaders who have signed the letter to the Chief Minister include T. Yasjwanth of Karnataka Rajya Prantha Raitha Sangha, Siddagouda Modgi of Bharatiya Krishik Samaja President, H.V.