Laws will deprive farmers of assets, says Cheema

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 26

The new farm laws introduced by the Centre were not only ‘anti-farmer’,

but also against the poor, middle class and small traders of the country, who would be the most hit, said Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema.

He said the new agricultural laws would grab the land of farmers by giving it to the capitalists, depriving them of their assets.

Cheema said, “With an end on the limit of stocking essential commodities, the capitalists will hoard the food items on a large scale and sell it to the poor at an expensive price. The Centre should have come out with new laws for the public welfare to remove poverty, but it is working to eliminate the poor by crushing them.” Cheema said it would endanger the future of the poor, middle class and small traders. “Inflation will be out of control and black marketing will increase,” he said.