Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address reaffirmed support to farmers, saying that he is “standing tall like a wall in front of policies which are against farmers’ interests.”
The remarks, made on the ramparts of Red Fort on Friday, come amid United States putting pressure on India to open up its agriculture market and subsequently levying a 25 per cent additional tariff, with the western nation calling it a ‘penalty’ for buying Russian oil.
“If any policy is against India’s farmers, fishermen, cattle rearers, Modi is standing like a wall,” PM Modi said in Hindi.
Talking about standing his ground in the era of ‘economic selfishness,’ he added, “I say this with great experience. Kisi doosre ki lakeer chhoti karne ke liye, apni oorja hamein nahi khapani hai. Hamein poori oorja ke saath hamari lakeer ko lamba karna hai. If we do that, the world will admit our strength.”
“Today, when economic selfishness is rising day by day in the global situation, it is the need of the hour that we don’t sit crying over those crises. Himmat ke saath apni lakeer ko lambi karein…If we take that path, no selfishness will not able to entangle us,” he added.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is holding talks with exporters, industries and all stakeholders and gathering information on their assessment of this issue with the goal of protecting the interests of farmers, labourers, entrepreneurs, industrialists, exporters, MSMEs and stakeholders of the industrial sector.
(ANI)
