The United Kisan Morcha (SKM) will hold a nationwide protest on Monday to protest against the Center for “not fulfilling its promises”, including setting up a panel on MSP and withdrawing cases against farmers.
The decision was taken after a day-long closed-door meeting held at the Gandhi Peace Foundation on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, where SKM leaders and members reviewed the progress made so far by the Center on the promises made to farmers, including setting up is included. Panel on MSP
There has been no progress in fulfilling the promises made by the Center to farmers on the issue of legislation on MSP, withdrawal of cases against farmers and expulsion of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni from the cabinet, he said. SKM member Abhimanyu Kohar had told PTI after the meeting.
“Hence, the SKM has decided to hold a nationwide protest at district and block level on March 21 against the central government for not fulfilling the promises,” he said.
The SKM, an umbrella body of 40 agricultural unions, had led a year-long agitation against the Centre’s three agricultural laws.
On December 9 last year, the government agreed to consider six other demands, including repeal of controversial laws and withdrawal of cases registered against farmers during the agitation, legal guarantee on MSP and compensation to the kin of farmers who died. This suspended the movement. during the protests.
MSP Guarantee Week
Later in a statement, the SKM said that the farmers would observe ‘MSP Guarantee Week’ from April 11 to 17 as part of the next phase of their nationwide campaign.
The non-implementation of the assurances given by the government to the farmers’ movement even after three months exposes its anti-farmer intent, the statement said.
“It was unanimously decided that between April 11 and 17, a nationwide campaign would be launched by observing MSP Legal Guarantee Week. During this week, all constituent organizations affiliated to SKM will organize demonstrations and seminars demanding legal guarantee of MSP as recommended by Swaminathan Commission, the statement said.
The Morcha reviewed the written assurances given by the government to the United Kisan Morcha on 9 December and found that even after three months, the government had not acted on its key assurances.
“There is no trace of assurance of forming a committee on MSP. In states other than Haryana, police cases registered against farmers during the agitation have not been withdrawn. Delhi Police has said that some cases will be partially withdrawn, but there is no concrete information about that too.
“The SKM has decided to organize a nationwide protest on March 21 over the role of the government in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and the betrayal of assurances given to the farmers’ agitation,” the SKM said in a statement.
While MSPs for selected crops have been announced since the mid-1960s – at a time when the country was looking for solutions to achieve food adequacy under ‘Green Revolution’ strategies – the practice has no legal basis, Which means that the government is not obliged to come up with an MSP or procure all the different crops produced in the country.
The MSP was an important factor in opposition to the new agricultural laws as the rules that paved the way for farmers to sell their produce outside the mandis (under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, or APMC, system by removing statutory requirements) and contract farming. There was no mention of the need for buyers to pay minimum price for agricultural produce due to being engaged in.
While the Center said the new laws would maximize prices for agricultural produce, protesting farmers saw the absence of the MSP requirement as a direct threat to their income, claiming it left them at the mercy of buyers, who could set the prices. In a good season for them.
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