Parliament takes 12 mins to repeal farm laws; Tomar hails PM's generosity

The farmers leading the protest, however, said they would keep up the pressure on their other demands, including a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for agri-commodities

In the end it took Parliament all of 12 minutes to scrap the three farm laws against which farmers have been agitating for the past year leading to the deaths of 750 of them.

The Farm Laws Repeal Bill — which rolled back the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Com­merce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Am­endment) Act, 2020 — was passed by voice vote in the Lok Sabha in four minutes. It took a little longer in the Rajya Sabha because Leader of the