Parliament session live: Debate begins in Rajya Sabha over farm sector bills : Yadav reads from a report from UPA era that spoke of ‘distress selling’ of farm produce due to lack of options – The Times of India

Rajya Sabha to vote on farm bills, govt remains confident

Amid determined resistance to the three farm sector-related bills by Congress and others, government managers remained confident of the passage in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday of the troika of legislations aimed at liberalising trade in agricultural commodities. Twelve parties — Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Telangana Rashtriya Samithi, DMK, AAP, RJD, CPM, CPI, Shiv Sena, NCP, IUML — had signed a joint resolution two days ago and submitted it to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu asking for the bills to be sent to the Select Committee. They all will obviously be opposing the legislations cleared by the Lok Sabha on Friday, when it comes up in the Upper House.