 During this pandemic, the Narendra Modi-led BJP government has pushed through several legislations that are a direct assault on people's rights. The latest among these are three bills on agriculture. Two of these were passed on Sunday, September 20th, despite opposition party members walking out of the parliament in protest of the manner in which these bills were pushed through. However, the BJP government remained undeterred. On Tuesday, September 22nd, the third bill too was passed in the upper house of the parliament in the absence of the opposition parliament members. What are these farm bills and why are farmers opposing them? The three farm bills passed hurriedly by the parliament are first the farmers produce trade and commerce bill, aiming to create and promote private markets for crops outside the ambit of the government regulated APMC muntils. These bills will be passed on to the APMC first, and in return, these farmers will be given the full permission to buy the goods of the big corporate companies and big businesses. These bills will be passed on to the APMC first, and in return, these farmers will be given the full permission to buy the goods of the big corporate companies and big businesses and big businesses. Farmers agreement of price assurance and farm services bill is the second one, and this attempts to promote contract farming within Indian agriculture. Thirdly, the essential commodities amendment bill, which removes various crops including cereals and vegetables from the list of essential commodities and the implication of this is that it basically does away with the restrictions on voting of these commodities by private traders. The second bill on contract farming is to integrate the Indian farmers into the corporate food supply chains, which actually are a global phenomenon. With farmers already grappling with the pandemic and the ever-growing agrarian crisis, why was the government in such a hurry to pass these bills? The government's justification for passing these bills is that the farmers will receive better prices for their crops as a result of private trade offering them more choices. Given that private trade in agricultural commodities has existed for a very long time in India and farmers have nonetheless faced considerable periods of declining or stagnated prices over the last three decades, therefore this reasoning seems curious. Why was the government in such a hurry to pass these bills in such a hurry to pass these bills? The government's justification for passing these bills is that the farmers will not be able to pass these bills due to the pandemic. The farmers' income is dependent on various factors. It is dependent on what happens to crop prices due to market demand and supply conditions and simultaneously also what happens to input prices, encouraging farmers into big capital controlled contract farming is akin to pushing them into a high-cost structure agriculture. Now given that the current pandemic and the associated massive income and job losses have created a demand crunch in the economy, a severe demand crunch actually, and that this comes on top of an already existing economic slowdown in the pre-pandemic times, this is definitely not the right time for such a reform. The government is repeatedly saying that these ordinances are going to benefit farmers, but that seems to be far from true, so the question arises, who really benefits from these changes? The claim that contract farming will protect farmers from price fluctuations is not immediately verified. Since typical contracts that corporate serve draw up with farmers have certain non-price clauses related to quality and safety aspects of farming and which these clauses are often used by the corporate companies to deny the pre-agreed price to the farmers. In the absence of a larger financial commitment on part of the government to ensure the revival of demand and prices in the economy, these bills are clearly being used as a shortcut to improve farmers' income, particularly to fulfill the promise of doubling farmers' income by 2022, which the current India government had made. Unfortunately, there are very slim chances of this benefiting the majority of Indian farmers, though it will certainly open up possibilities for the corporate capital in the farm sector. We need to understand that the pandemic has globally caused a massive disruption for capital and profits as well. With widespread loss of incomes and jobs, people have cut back on consumption of goods and services and as long as the scare of the virus remains, there is a possibility of impending health costs out-of-pocket expenditures. We can expect that this cut back on consumption of goods and of various goods and services is something that is not going to immediately revive. Clearly, amidst all this, the consumption of most agricultural commodities has have relatively been sustained as these are necessary items that cannot be done away with on a large scale. Therefore, globally, big capital is looking to recover their lost profits, their failing businesses elsewhere by entering into agricultural commodity trade on a scale which is much, much bigger than what it has done in the past. The much greater digitization of the agricultural commodity supply chains is an associated development amidst the pandemic that we have witnessed and this is where capital C is a lucrative opportunity. Today, Prime Minister Dhoosa says that what we want to do is to remove these legal powers that are middlemen, who are criminals, who are in the agricultural industry, we want to remove them. We want to end them, but what is the reality, friends? The reality today is that the biggest middleman in this country, the biggest middleman and the biggest leader is the Modi government. We want to put this accusation openly today. And who is this middleman? This is the middleman of Ambani and Adani, of other big companies, of multinational corporations. And this is Ambani and Adani who give all the money during elections to the BJP and when they come to power for this, then they work to give the full chance to benefit the whole country. And for this, these criminals have brought these farmers' illegal laws.