Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic announcement of repealing the three farm laws on Friday morning and said he will continue to work for the welfare of the farmers. PM Modi also announced a committee to look into the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Here are 10 key points of PM Modi’s address to the nation
- PM Narendra Modi greets people on the occasion of Prakash Prav or “Dev Deepawali”
- “Our govt is focused on making the lives of farmers easier”
- PM Modi said that at least 80 per cent are small scale farmers
- PM Modi, “We have worked in different sectors to make it easy for farmers.
- “Our govt has issued 22 cr soil cards, brought many farmers under crop insurance scheme.
- One lakh cr compensation has been given to farmers in the last 4 years.
- 1.62 lakh cr directly given in the account of small farmers.
- “We have doubled crop loan to Rs 16 lakh cr”
- “To improve farmers’ condition, our govt is working honestly.”
- “We had brought the farm laws for the welfare of agriculture class. We also agreed to suspend the laws, and they even went to SC. However, today on Prakash Parv, we have decided to repeal the three laws. we will soon begin the constitutional process of repealing the farm laws.
