New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) said on Friday that farming has become a loss-making occupation under “Amrit Kaal of PM Modi,” adding that the PM cannot fool farmers and rural poor by paying lip service. The farmer’s body said that the killing of a young farmer at the Kannouri border has resulted in anger among the public across all states, and the observation of Black Day/Aakrosh Day today reflects the sentiments of the angered protestors.
“Reports of the effigy burning of Union Minister Amit Shah, Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar, and Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij have been received from all the states of India, and torchlight processions are also taking place widely in the villages and towns. Women and youth have also widely participated in the protest actions,” Samyukta Kisan Morcha said in a statement.
SKM also welcomed the Punjab Government’s decision to give compensation of Rs 1 crore and one job to family of the deceased young farmer. It further reiterated its demand to the Punjab Government to register an FIR under Section 302 of the IPC in the farmer’s killing incident and a judicial inquiry by a Supreme Court judge into the firing and the damage caused to tractors.
Targeting Prime Minister Modi, SKM also claimed that Gujarat, as per the RBI data, pays the lowest wage to farmers. “Before uttering again “Modi’s Guarantee,” he owes an explanation, though he was three times Chief Minister and two times Prime Minister of the country, why Gujarat, the state he claims as the model for development, is unable to pay the minimum wage for a dignified life to its rural workers,” the press release said.
To press the Centre to accept their demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for crops and a farm debt waiver, the farmers have been camping at the border points since February 13 along with their tractor-trolleys, mini-vans, and pickup trucks. Questioning the feasibility of the demand made by farmers that a law be made on the Minimum Support Price (MSP), Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan said on Friday that farmers are being paid well for their crops under the BJP-led Centre and they received pensions for the first time since independence under BJP rule.
Questioning the feasibility of the demand made by farmers that a law be made on the Minimum Support Price (MSP), Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan said on Friday that farmers are being paid well for their crops under the BJP-led Centre and they received pensions for the first time since independence under BJP rule.
Speaking to reporters in Ranchi, the Jharkhand Governor said, “Farmers agitation is coming often from Punjab. We don’t understand why. PM Modi is the first Prime Minister in the country to give pensions to farmers. He almost doubled the support price for so many products. So many crops are being paid for well. Procurement is high, but there is still demand. I do not know how feasible their (farmers) demand is.” (ANI)
