2020 Indian agriculture acts

[7][8] In a televised address on 19 November 2021, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced that his government would repeal the laws in the upcoming parliamentary session in December.

[20] Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress have had farm reforms as manifesto promises for years.

Centralization was thought to be reducing competition and (accordingly) participation, with undue commissions, market fees, and monopoly of associations damaging the agricultural sector.

[26] The Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh state assemblies tabled bills to counter and amend the Central government's three farm laws.

[40][41] Rejecting demands for the inclusion of Minimum Support Price (MSP) as a mandatory provision in the Farm Bills, Narendra Singh Tomar, the Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare said that, while the government was committed to MSP, it was "not a part of the law" earlier and "is not" today.

[46] Sociologist Salvatore Babones supported the farm laws and said that the reforms would transform Indian agriculture from a "locally managed rural economy into a modern national industry"[47] In January 2021, 866 academics from several educational institutes signed an open letter, expressing their support for the three farm laws.

[51][52] Kaushik Basu, former chief economist of the World Bank called the new farm bills are "flawed" and "detrimental to farmers".

[54] The Shetkari Sanghatana, a farmers union in Maharashtra, supported the bills and wanted the market to decide the prices of agricultural commodities.

[63] Various opposition parties alleged that the bills were passed "unconstitutionally" in "complete disregard" of parliamentary norms and are anti-farmer and corporate-friendly.

[70] The protesters pointed out that the deregulation of the sugar industry in 1998, which paved the way for private establishments, did not result in a significant improvement in farmers' productivity or incomes.

A state-led attempt in Bihar to deregulate the APMCs in 2006 has not resulted in an increase in farmers' income or improved infrastructure.

[77] Farmer leader and Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait were the biggest faces of the ongoing movement against agricultural laws.

[78][79] On the occasion of Gurupurab on 19 November 2021, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced that his government would repeal the three acts during the upcoming winter session of Parliament in December.

On the occasion of Guru Purab, the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws.Experts and poll watchers suggested that the forthcoming state elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh in 2022 had an effect on Modi's decision.

[85] The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikait, stated the protests would only cease once the laws were repealed, and if a Minimum Support Price guarantee law is passed through the Parliament, by the will of the government and also to form a committee for the purpose of direct communication for other farm interests of farmers with the Government of India and the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.