Current Affairs · Government Policies & Protests

Read the following statements and choose the correct code: A. The Indian Parliament passed three agriculture reform bills concerning pricing, sale, and storage in September 2020. B. The new laws aimed to deregulate and privatize India's agrarian economy, allowing private corporations to purchase crops at market prices and engage in contract farming. C. The agitating farmers felt that the likely outcome of these laws would be the collapse of the public agricultural system, which would jeopardize small farmers' livelihoods and the nation's food security. D. In response to the farmers' movement, Prime Minister Modi acquiesced to the farmers' demands and announced the repeal of the three farm laws in November 2021.