Farmers are allowed to trade in agricultural products outside the notified market and sign contracts with private companies. “These two bills will be especially helpful to farmers,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then. Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections. Opposition groups called for the beleagured PM to resign, saying “since agriculture and the state are under the control of the state, they need to be allowed to pass the two bills.” He encouraged ordinary people as well to take part in solving this great task: “One of the things you and other people can do is keep up the pressure … there are going to be some difficult decisions for government”. “It simply came to our notice then that this was not a farm, but a crop bill,” he said. Ranjan Chowdhury, the Congress’s adherent, Saugat Rai of the Trinamool Congress and Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP, opposed the bill.
