New Delhi: Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), farmer organizations affiliated with RSS, on Wednesday will hold a protest sitting in all district headquarters throughout the country to suppress legal guarantee requests for minimum support prices (MSP).
The group on Tuesday was threatened to expand agitation if the government did not pay attention to his request.
“There is an urgent need to enforce the law to ensure that farmers must get a favorable price of their products above and above production costs,” said Badri Narayan Choudhary, Secretary General of the BKS, while sharing the details of the protest plan.
Underlining that not getting the price of remunerative agricultural products is at the nucleus of the current riots in the farming community, he said the Sangh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 11 which seeks its intervention to ensure that farmers get their products, but have not received responses from the government.
“We expect a positive response from the government in the specified time (August 31).
But we did not get a response in this matter.
So, we are now forced to hold a demonstration in front of almost all district collectors throughout the country on Wednesday,” Choudhary said.
The BKS noted that there was a large gap at this time between MSP and the market prices of agricultural products, and farmers only a few countries benefited from the MSP mechanism while the rest outside PurView.
“We have to work for a system where farmers from all countries benefit from the MSP system.
This will occur only when the government comes out with strict law to ensure the procurement of all agricultural products in MSP – both in ‘Mandis’ or outside ‘Mandis’ By government institutions or by private traders, “said Secretary General BKS).
BKS members will send a memorandum to the prime minister in this regard through the district collector on Wednesday.
“If we won’t get a response in 10 days, we will continue for our next agitation step.
We hope that farmers will not be forced to reach the road during the peak of the planting season,” Choudhary said.