Bihar Agriculture Minister Sudhakar Singh resigns

Significantly, Bihar’s Agriculture Minister Sudhakar Singh has been a cause of embarrassment for the Nitish Kumar government for being vocal on many issues.

For the past few days, RJD leaders have been flagging off the issues related to farmers and APMC mandi. He was continuously raising his voice in favor of the farmers.

RJD president Jagdanand Singh said that while Sudhakar Singh was “raising his voice in favor of the farmers”, he decided to tender his resignation so that “the rift does not deepen” (‘so that the battles do not progress’).

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Recently Sudhakar Singh has said that he will not allow the formation of a grand alliance government in the state to ‘continue the agenda of the BJP’ in the agriculture department.

Sudhakar Singh on Saturday said that he will not remain silent till the reinstatement of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act in Bihar. He considered the repeal of the Act from Bihar in 2006 to be “anti-farmer” in nature.

Significantly, the APMC Act and the ‘mandi’ system, which was a major bone of contention in the nationwide farmers’ movement, were repealed by the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar in 2006.

Sudhakar Singh told PTI, “Being the state’s agriculture minister, I will not allow the BJP’s agenda in the agriculture department to continue after the formation of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government in the state.”

A day earlier, Sudhakar Singh had also questioned the new fertilizer policy of Bihar being prepared on Saturday. He also questioned the progress of Bihar in terms of food grains production in the last seventeen years. The minister said, “Despite three agriculture roadmaps, our total food grain production was 1.77 lakh tonnes in 2011-12 and we produced 1.76 lakh tonnes in 2021-22.

(with inputs from PTI)