A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called clearing of three farm bills in the Lok Sabha historic, the BJP is putting the party's political capital behind him.

This is despite the dramatic resignation of Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal from the Cabinet.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) affiliate among farmers, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), is upset too.

BKS General Secretary Badri Narayan Chaudhary spoke to India Today about the issue in an exclusive interview.

Chaudhary said that the bill is tilted heavily towards the corporate and will complicate the lives of farmers further.Here are excerpts from the interview:Q.

Now that the Lok Sabha has cleared the three farm sector bills without taking in account Bharatiya Kisan Sangh's objections, what is the way forward?A.

On this issue, we are with farmers.

BKS is not against reforms or creation of alternative mechanisms, but there are genuine concerns of the farmers.

The price of produce must be indexed to the minimum support price (MSP) fixed by the government.

The bill too liberalised the licence system for traders under the APMC act.

Now anyone with a PAN card can become a trader and deal with farmers.

The law must have mechanisms to ensure that a farmer is paid when his produce is lifted, else the government must become the guarantor.

In the present bill, the entire dispute redressal system is faulty.

At present, the bill is bringing ease of business for corporates, but would complicate the lives of farmers further.Q.

Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on the floor of the house that the existing MSP system and state's APMC law will continue; the alternative mechanism is for the surplus.A.

If he is so sure, then he should bring this in the legislative paper.

Nearly 80 per cent of the farmers in the country are either small or marginal.

'One India one market' doesn't work for them.

This works either for big corporations or big farmers.

The bill doesn't consider complexities in the life of small farmers.

Just imagine, the bill says that farmers and corporate can mutually agree on price and conditions of the payments.

Can farmers with 1, 2 or 5 acres of land negotiate with big corporations? What if, they don't pay him the full amount? Will a small and marginal farmer have a wherewithal to deal with them? These small farmers want diversified and decentralised markets nearer to his farms.

In the last two budgets, the NDA government is talking about 22,000 new mandis, where are they? It is very unfortunate that Agriculture and Food ministries are run by bureaucrats, who have no connection with the ground realities.Q.

PM Modi called this bill historic, but on the other hand the ally Shiromini Akali Dal's representative in cabinet Harsimrat Badal resigned.A.

BKS has nothing to do with politics.

We are a farmers' organisation and would always talk for the benefit of the farmers.

These bills, in present format, will not help the farmers much.

50,000 farmers from across the country wrote letters to the prime minister saying that they don't want this law in present form.

Several units of BKS at village level have passed resolutions to oppose it.

We have already conveyed this to our colleagues in other RSS affiliates, senior leadership of the BJP and top leaders in government and broadly listed four major shortcomings in the bill.Q.

Did you get any assurance from the government leadership? Now that your demands are not met, will you join the protests?A.

We recently had meetings with top leaders in the government on this issue.

And had requested them to speak more to the farmers, bring the changes and reconcile with them.

The impression we got was that they were listening and would accommodate the concerns of the farmers.

But the text of the bill speaks the other language.

There is still a chance, when the debate on this issue happens in Rajya Sabha.

Our suggestion would be to send it to a select committee and resolve these issues before making a law.

We are with farmers, we will join them in the protests but would not get violent or aggressive.