‘Farm legal guidelines in curiosity of farmers’: Nitish Kumar after ‘courtesy assembly’ with PM Modi

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking to reporters publish the assembly, Kumar mentioned his social gathering is with the federal government on the farmers’ difficulty and that the Centre has opted for the suitable path by holding talks with the farmer unions agitating in opposition to the three legal guidelines. 

Thousands of farmers are protesting on varied Delhi borders for greater than two months demanding the repeal of the three legal guidelines, which they discover pro-corporate and in opposition to the present mandi and MSP procurement techniques. However, the federal government has rejected these apprehensions as baseless, although a minimum of 11 rounds of talks between the 2 sides have failed to finish the stalemate.

He mentioned that the legislations are within the curiosity of farmers and never in opposition to them. “Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon,” the JDU chief mentioned. 

Kumar additionally made gentle of the claims of rival events, together with Lalu Prasad’s RJD, that his authorities in Bihar won’t final its full time period, saying if they’re getting publicity out of it, then there’s nothing unsuitable with that. He added in the identical vein that these leaders are blind to realities.

This was Kumar’s first assembly with Modi after his authorities assumed workplace in November final yr. The Bihar chief minister described it as a “courtesy meeting”, including that he didn’t make any particular demand and so they talked a few vary of points.

In energy in Bihar since 2005 aside from a short interval, that is the primary time that Kumar’s JD(U) is a junior accomplice within the alliance with the BJP after its tally fell to 43 seats within the 243-member meeting from 71 whereas the saffron social gathering jumped to 74 from 53. (With PTI inputs)

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