PM Modi says new farm laws empower, open markets; attacks Opposition

Modi said the quality of Indian farm produce was known all over the world and the farmers were entitled to get access to bigger markets to increase their income

In the backdrop of the farmers’ protests on the new central farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that the legislation was aimed at empowering farmers and providing them with bigger markets and better prices.

Addressing a public meeting in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi, Modi accused the opposition of spreading misinformation and canards about the new farm laws, saying that those who shouldered a legacy of deceiving farmers were at it again.

Modi said the quality of Indian farm produce was known all over the world and the farmers were entitled to get access to bigger markets to increase their