Congress senior spokesperson Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged the NDA government at the Centre was testing waters on its proposal to tax farmers by using officials and bodies to stir the debate on the issue.
He said his party will launch an agitation across the country to oppose imposition of any more taxes on the country's farmers who have already been under stress.
The Congress general secretary alleged that farmers of the country have paid "the biggest price" by electing a BJP government, which has failed to fulfil any of the promises made to them ahead of elections.
"It seems this government is all set to impose such a tax. This is being deliberately raised by government functionaries to test the waters," he said.
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"The Congress rejects this proposition of taxing farmers and bringing agricultural income into the tax ambit. We will oppose this idea tooth and nail and will take on the government on every available public forum," he said.
He said the Indian farmer is already burdened by debt, subsidy cuts and high indirect taxes and asked why the BJP government wants to increase their miseries by imposing another tax on them.
He said this year's Economic Survey advocated to levy taxation on agriculture and now important government functionaries were advocating that agricultural income should be brought under tax ambit.
"The complete apathy and insensitivity of the BJP government which is trying to impose tax on farmers through the backdoor is exposed by the fact that even though Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tried to contradict Debroy's proposal, the CEA wholeheartedly supports taxing farmers," he alleged.
"Farmers already are heavily taxed indirectly. Why does the BJP want an additional tax on their income now? The prime minister and the finance minister should answer this question," he said.