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Opposition parties protest against farm bills: Genuine fight for farmers or vested political interests?

Opposition parties hit out at the government on Monday over farm bill and the suspension of eight Rajya Sabha MPs and are holding an "indefinite" protest on the Parliament premises against the move.

The Congress announced a massive people's movement which would include protest marches, agitations and collecting two crore farmers' signatures for a memorandum against the legislations to be submitted to President Ram Nath Kovind.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reassured farmers that the government purchase of their produce coupled with minimum support price mechanism will continue. He also said that the farm sector reform bills passed by Parliament were the "need of the 21 century India".

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