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Aug 6, 2020 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम - Farmers of India under the banner of @aikscc All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee are launching on historically significant August Kranti day, on August 9th, with a clarion call for corporations to Quit Indian Farming, with 9 key demands.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम - 1. Scrap the 3 ordinances that instead of solving farmers' problems, will exacerbate them & put them straight into the stranglehold of big agri and food players. There are many things seriously wrong with each of them! @PMOIndia-they need to be withdrawn
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 2. Table and enact the AIKSCC Bill to make remunerative prices as a legal entitlement of all farmers for all agricultural commodities.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 3. Table and enact the AIKSCC Bill to make freedom from indebtedness as a statutory right of all farmers. Farming is the riskiest enterprise out there, and do not have double standards for indebtedness and bankruptcy b/w sectors.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 4. Scrap the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020. Govt should also waive the electricity bill of farmers, small shopkeepers, small and micro entrepreneurs and small business people as long as the Covid-19 pandemic does not recede.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 5. Compensate Farmers for the Losses Suffered this Year: Your government should provide full compensation to farmers for losses of vegetables, fruits, crops, milk and poultry produce due to hailstorms, unseasonal rains and lockdown in February-June 2020.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 6. Reduce Diesel Prices Immediately: Diesel prices have to be decreased by half immediately. International prices have decreased by 60% since 2014, but the rates fixed by your government have increased twice.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 7. Increase the Employment Days under MGNREGA: MGNREGA should guarantee at least 200 days of employment under the scheme. Wage rates should be fixed at minimum wages so that agricultural labourers, small farmers and retunring migrant workers.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 8. Provide Full Food Rations to Every Person in Addition to Cash Support to Households: Food grains produced by the hard work of peasants of the country can be used to ensure that no Indian remains hungry.
8. During the entire period of the corona virus crisis, govt should provide every month 15 kgs of cereals/millets, 1 kg of edible oil, 1 kg of pulses & 1 kg of sugar per unit. Additionally, cash transfers should be arranged for all households for other basic needs to be met.
#कर्जा_मुक्ति_पूरा_दाम 9. Protect Land & Forest Resources of Tribals & Other Farmers.Prohibit Companies from Acquiring Agricultural Land: Govt should not uproot farmers tilling the land for over a generation. Forcible planting on forest land in name of CAMPA Act should be stopped

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Oct 1, 2020
I just found APMC Bypass Bill has: 2(n) TRADER means a person who BUYS farmers’ produce by way of inter-State or intra-State trade ... for purpose of wholesale trade, retail, END USE, value addition, processing, manufacturing, export, CONSUMPTION or for such other purpose!!! 1/4
Trade is not explicitly defined other than buying and selling of farmers' produce, and defined in the context of inter-state or intra-state in the Act. 2/4
It means that CONSUMERS buying from farmers (let us say in rural haats or in rural India generally etc.) have been equated with traders. And now, as per Sec.4(1) all these consumers who are = traders have to have PAN cards!! Otherwise, penalties under Sec.11 (1) will apply. 3/4
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Sep 14, 2020
Disconnect from ground, ambiguities and deficiencies galore in the APMC Bypass Bill 2020.
*farmers' freedom was not curtailed earlier either in state APMC Acts
* trader to trader transactions are being regulated now - that cannot be farmers' produce
#APMCBypassBill 1/13
It is unclear why separate definitions and clauses have been included for Farmers’ Produce (Sec.2(a)) and Scheduled Farmers’ Produce (2 (j)) when the intention is to de-regulate both, but one category now put under state APMC Act discretion!!? #APMCBypassBill 2/13
Sec 2(d) Farmer means a person engaged in production of farming produce by self or by hired labour or ...and includes FPOs! FPOs not engaged in production & cannot be equated with Farmer. Why regulate decisions within autonomous farmers’ body with decisions made by farmers? 3/13
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Sep 14, 2020
Now, to the APMC BYPASS BILL 2020. It seems to be about replacing current local traders' monopsonies with big business monopolies without government addressing the basic issues around protecting farmers. 1/7 Image
Farmers’ freedom was not curtailed legally in APMCs Act. It's also important to note that only 35% of produce traded in regulated markets. Many things going wrong in these APMCs. However, APMCs provide space for farmers' collective bargaining on price & non-price issues. 2/7 Image
While non-Mandi trade needs to be de-criminalised, that is NOT to be made de-regulation which will b callous neglect of farmers’ interests. Farmers’ woes with markets & low prices are due to many inter-locked factors incl. agri-credit & dumping from unequal international trade3/7
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Sep 14, 2020
CONTRACT FARMING BILL 2020 AKA Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020. THERE IS NO ‘PRICE ASSURANCE’ OR ‘FARMERS’ EMPOWERMENT’ –
title of Bill is a misnomer. Is this allowed in law-making?
1/4 Image
IN AN ACT THAT KEEPS THINGS VOLUNTARY (Farmer ‘may’ enter agreement, ‘may’ have written agreement, it ‘may’ have xyz terms & conditions etc.-- It's not about Sponsor SHALL enter written agreement etc.)- THERE SHALL BE A BAR ON CIVIL COURT JURISDICTION (Sec.19)? How & why? 2/4
Isn’t concept of “Production Agreement” in this Bill a proxy for CORPORATE FARMING??
Aren't 'farm services' being equated with inputs?
How are FPOs included in the definition of Farmer? 3/4
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Sep 14, 2020
Yes, agri-businesses in post-harvest supply chains need predictable regulation to invest. But that doesn't mean govt can give up on its power to regulate for protection of weakest. So, what's wrong with Essential Commodities Amendment Bill 2020, to be introduced today? 1/7 Image
Preamble says it's for enhancing income of farmers but EC Act was never about Farmers or their incomes. There was no restriction under ECA on Farmers or FPOs from stocking produce/selling it. It's established that during retail price rise, benefit is not passed on to farmers.2/7
Now, restrictions are being removed for all foodstuffs to give Companies freedom to purchase & store any quantities, hence indulge in hoarding. This is “Food Hoarding (Freedom for Corporates) Bill”. Cos like Adani-Wilmar & Reliance will now stock any amount of food stuffs. 3/7
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Aug 14, 2020
#PrashantBhushan & Non-existent legal reasoning of SC - Crisp analysis by @gautambhatia88 - "It reminds me of times I used to take a football from halfway line, dribble it across the pitch, and kick it into the goal – without any opposition players on the field.
It stands to reason that if an individual has been accused of CoC because they expressed an opinion about role of 4 CJs in undermining democracy, & that individual has filed a Reply setting out the facts upon the basis of which they arrived at that opinion, ....
a “judgment” holding that individual guilty of contempt cannot pretend that the Reply does not exist. .. "In the 108-page long judgment (the substantive part of which begins at page 93), the Supreme Court refuses entirely to engage with Mr. Bhushan’s reply."
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