SKM hired farmers to perform Tractor/Vehicle/Motorcycle Parades on 26th January 2025, the 76th Republic Day.|
New Delhi: Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday asked for tractor marches throughout the nation on January 26 and required that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold conversations with farmers over their pending needs. The SKM’s phone call comes in the middle of expanding problems over the health and wellness of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, that has actually gotten on an uncertain quick for 48 days.
Dallewal, the convener of SKM (Non-Political), has actually gotten on the uncertain cravings strike at the Khanauri boundary factor in between Punjab and Haryana given that November 26 in 2015 over farmers’ numerous needs consisting of a lawful assurance to Minimum Support Price (MSP) for plants.
In a declaration released below, the SKM additionally revealed that a conference with SKM (Non- political) and KMM will certainly be hung on Monday for a joint battle over needs, consisting of MSP and the junking of the National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing (NPFAM).
“SKM called upon farmers to conduct Tractor/Vehicle/Motorcycle Parades on 26th January 2025, the 76th Republic Day, at the district/sub-division level across the country,” it stated in a declaration.
“The farmers will parade demanding that the Prime Minister immediately convene discussions with all the Kisan organisations on the struggle and save the life of Jagjit Singh Dallewal, immediately withdraw the anti-farmer, anti-federal NPFAM, and enact a law for MSP at C2+50 per cent with legally guaranteed procurement,” SKM included.
The needs additionally consist of an extensive lending waiver system for farmers and ranch employees, no privatisation of power, no clever metres, arrangement of totally free power as much as 300 systems and application of the LARR Act 2013, to name a few.
All the State Coordination Committees (SCCs) of SKM will certainly provide phone call to oppose versus NPFAM by melting its duplicates. “SKM strongly condemned the authoritarian, insensitive attitude of the Prime Minister for not willing to discuss with the Kisan organisations and to protect the life of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal,” SKM stated.
The umbrella body of farmers’ organisations, which led the 2020-21 farmers’ demonstrations versus the currently junked ranch regulations, declared that the Supreme Court and the President of India have actually ended up being “helpless to intervene to save the farmer leader’s life despite his fast-unto-death struggle crossing 46 days.”
“This is mainly due to the adamant stand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is surrendering to the rapacious corporate forces that are hell-bent on imposing their dominance on agriculture, industry, and services by denying minimum support price to farmers, minimum wage to workers, and destroying productive employment for the youth,” they stated.
“The people’s livelihood is at stake due to the corporate onslaught through a series of pro-corporate reforms, the latest being the National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing, which challenges the federal structure of the Indian Union, one of the basic principles of the Indian Constitution,” they included.
They better revealed that a sychronisation conference of SKM with SKM (Non-Political) and KMM will certainly be hung on 13th January at Patran, a community near Khanauri.
A six-member board of SKM saw the Khanauri objection website on Friday and welcomed SKM (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha for a conference to combine farmer bodies for a joint battle versus the Centre to protect farmers’ needs. The conference was originally set up for January 15 in Patiala however was rescheduled as a result of Dallewal’s health and wellness problem.
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