New Delhi: Thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh and neighboring countries on Sunday gathered at Muzaffarnagar for ‘Kisan Mahapachayat’ organized by Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM).
The farmers demanded to revoke three of the three new laws imposed by the center, which they maintained harmed the interests of agricultural communities and small traders.
The movement to continue their agitation, which was rather receded because of the plague of pandemic, it was important because it came a few months before the crucial assembly election at Uttar Pradesh.
Here are important points of farmer agitation in Muzaffarnagar: Support from South Toothe SKM on Saturday claims that thousands of farmers from 15 states have achieved Muzaffarnagar to participate in Mahapachayat.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) This media Dharmendra Malik said farmers belonging to 300 organizations spread across various countries such as Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra and even Karnataka had gathered for the event.
Farmers, including women carrying different organizational flags and wearing different colored caps, seen arriving at the venue on the bus, car and tractor.
A leader of a female farmer from Karnataka discussed the meeting in Kannada.
Farmer leaders say that Mahapachayat will prove that agitation has the support ‘all caste, religion, state, class, small traders and all parts of society’.
Calls for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on September 27, farmers unanimously gave a call to ‘Bharat Bandh’ on September 27 in protest against three controversial agricultural laws.
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmer meetings are planned throughout the country in the coming days.
“We must stop the country to sell.
Farmers must be saved, the state must be saved; business, employees and youth must be saved – this is the goal of the general meeting,” said Tikait.
‘The campaign against BJP above, the leader of the Uttarakhand’farmer made it clear that they would campaign against BJP in power in Uttar Pradesh and the election of the Uttarakhand Assembly in 2022 if their demands were not accepted.
They even threatened to continue their agitation until 2024 when the Sabha’s selection was due.
That SKM said in a statement, “Mahapachayat will make the Modi and Yogis government realize the strength of farmers, farm laborers, and supporters of the agricultural movement.” Farmers’ protest withdrew political reactions MP Varun Gandhi on Sunday described farmers, who had protested against three agricultural laws, as “our own meat and blood” and suggested that the government must be back with them in reaching a shared foundation.
“We need to start pulling back with them respectfully: the United Nations annoys their pain, their point of view and works with them in reaching a shared foundation,” Gandhi tweeted.
The Bahujan Party of Jajjaj also demanded that the center accept the demands of farmers who had protested nearly nine months against three agricultural laws.
Congress Chief of Congress Ajay Kumar Lallu said the alleged BJP crackdown in farmers as seen in Haryana recently and “three black farming laws” will also be a big problem in future polls and people will stand near farmers.
(With agency input)