Farmers Protest: PM Modi Urges All ‘Annadatas’ to Read Tomar’s Open Letter on Farm Laws

Earlier today, Union Agriculture Minister  Narendra Singh Tomar wrote an 8-page letter to the protesting farmers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday requested the farmers to read Narendra Singh Tomar’s letter to them where the agriculture minister expressed his feelings to the farmer brothers and sisters. PM Modi took to Twitter and wrote, “Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has expressed his feelings by writing a letter to the farmer brothers & sisters, trying to have a polite dialogue. I request all Annadatas to read it. I also urge countrymen to make it reach to as many people as possible.”

Earlier today, Union Agriculture Minister  Narendra Singh Tomar wrote an 8-page letter to the protesting farmers, requesting them to not believe in the “white lies” being spread by some people that MSP will be stopped. He has urged the farmers to not believe in such lies.

कृषि मंत्री @nstomar जी ने किसान भाई-बहनों को पत्र लिखकर अपनी भावनाएं प्रकट की हैं, एक विनम्र संवाद करने का प्रयास किया है। सभी अन्नदाताओं से मेरा आग्रह है कि वे इसे जरूर पढ़ें। देशवासियों से भी आग्रह है कि वे इसे ज्यादा से ज्यादा लोगों तक पहुंचाएं। https://t.co/9B4d5pyUF1

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 17, 2020

In his letter, Tomar reiterated that the Central government is ready to give a written assurance regarding the MSP.

“Some farmer groups have spread rumours and misinformation. It is my job to dispel them come from a farming family. Those sitting on railway tracks who stopped rations reaching our soldiers protecting our borders, can’t be farmers,” the letter from the minister stated.

सभी किसान भाइयों और बहनों से मेरा आग्रह !

“सबका साथ सबका विकास सबका विश्वास” के मंत्र पर चलते हुए प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी के नेतृत्व में हमारी सरकार ने बिना भेदभाव सभी का हित करने का प्रयास किया है। विगत 6 वर्षों का इतिहास इसका साक्षी है।#ModiWithFarmers pic.twitter.com/Ty6GchESUG

— Narendra Singh Tomar (@nstomar) December 17, 2020

Without naming the Opposition, Narendra Singh Tomar claimed in his letter, “A lie is being spread in the name of MSP and Mandis. The fact is that nothing is going to change.”

“In the last six years, the Modi government has taken a lot of steps for farmers. Through these bills, the government has provided an additional option for farmers to sell their product anywhere they want,” Tomar went on to say.

While adding that MSP and APMC mandis will continue and the government is ready to give written assurance in this regard, Narendra Singh Tomar said the Congress sat on recommendations made in the Swaminathan Committee report for eight years.

“These days, they are working again to create tension. They even questioned our Army and their supreme sacrifice in Leh-Ladakh,” the Union Minister for Agriculture wrote in his letter to farmers.