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Farmers Warn Centre: Ensure MSP Or Face The Consequences In Polls

Mar 15, 2024 | Pratirodh Bureau

The mahapanchayat witnessed a turnout of approxiammately 50,000 farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, all pledging unanimously to overturn the Modi government in the upcoming elections

India’s most influential body of farmers’ unions — the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) — convened a mahapanchayat (mega gathering) in the heart of Delhi on Thursday, issuing a stern warning to the Modi government to act on minimum support price (MSP) or face political repercussions in the upcoming general elections.

This come two years and three months after it compelled the Narendra Modi government to withdraw three controversial farm laws.

Held weeks before the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls, the mahapanchayat witnessed a turnout of approxiammately 50,000 farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, all pledging unanimously to overturn the Modi government in the upcoming elections.

Meanwhile, Delhi Police had allowed the farmers to hold the mahapanchayat on the condition that no tractor trolleys would be allowed and the size of the gathering would not exceed 5,000. The proceedings, however, remained peaceful.

While addressing the gathering, Rakesh Tikait, leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent figure in the farmers’ agitation, lambasted the Modi government as one of liars. He also refuted claims by the government in the media that farmers had been invited for talks, asserting, ” No proposal for dialogue came from the government after 2021.”

Tikait said, “Today the farmers of the country are suffering the consequences of the government’s wrong policy and dictatorship…This agitation is not going to end.”

Tikait branded the BJP-led government “not a government but a corporate syndicate” operated by corporate lackeys. Without naming anyone but with Gurnam Singh Chaduni standing just behind him on the dais, Tikait accused the Centre of engineering a split within the SKM and called for unity among the various farmer unions.

Chaduni had parted ways with the SKM to form the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party and had recently led a protest alongside farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher demanding MSP. He had mobilised farmers for a march to Delhi, which was, however, thwarted in Haryana by the BJP-led government’s police action against the protesters.

Coming out to extend his support to the mahapanchayat, Chaduni addressed the farmers, emphasising that the demand for MSP is not aimed at enriching farmers individually but rather at safeguarding the nation. “We came here to protect the nation that Bhagat Singh envisioned,” he said.

Meanwhile, Vijoo Krishnan, leader of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and a vocal critic of the Modi government — who organised a 200 km-long Kisan March from Nasik to Mumbai in 2018, declared that the time has come to oust the anti-people government.

Krishnan asserted, “Woh keh rahe hain abki baar 400 paar, hum keh rahe hain abki bar tadi paar (they are talking about 400-plus seats this time, we are saying expel them).”

When questioned about how permission for the rally was obtained for the mahapanchayat, leaders of the SKM responded that owing to the impending Lok Sabha polls, the government is reluctant to appear to be taking an anti-farmer stance.

A group of farmers who arrived on Wednesday night from Rajasthan’s Sikar, expressed bewilderment over the reluctance of the government to concede to the demand for MSP, considering that it entails no financial implications.

The SKM, formed as an umbrella organisation of several farmer unions to spearhead the protest against the contentious farm laws (now repealed) vowed to escalate the struggle against the Centre’s policies.

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