New Delhi: Farmer leaders on Sunday wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said they would end their protest only if the government held a discussion about their six demands, which included MSP which guarantees MSP.
Welcoming the government’s decision to revoke the “black” law, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the peasant union umbrella body, said the protesters who had been nervous for almost a year have gathered several other demands in addition to the exclusion of law.
Direct Update: Agricultural Law fight “Prime Minister, you have appealed to the farmers that now we have to return home.
We want to convince you that we don’t like to sit on the streets.
We also want to solve these other problems.
As soon as possible, We returned home, family and farm.
If you want the same thing, the government must immediately continue talks with Samyukt Kisan Morcha at six problems above, “said the body of the farmer.
It added that until the conversation occurred, SKM would continue the movement as planned.
The registered trade union six demands in the letter.
At the first request, farmers said the government had to make minimum support prices (MSP) based on the Formula C2 + 50% legal for all farmers.
“The committee formed under your chairman has made this recommendation to the Prime Minister in 2011 and your government has also announced about this in parliament,” he said.
In the second request, the farmers asked the government to draw the design of “Bill’s electricity amendments, 2020/2021” proposed by him.
“During the conversation, the government had promised that it would be withdrawn, but later, in a violation of the promise, it was included in the parliament agenda,” SKM said.
In his letter, Morcha asked the government to remove criminal provisions in farmers over the propellers.
SKM also asked the government to attract cases submitted to thousands of farmers from state such as Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh for their role in agitation.
Repeating his request for Lakhimpur Kheri’s violence, where eight people were killed, SKM said the government had to solve the United Minister of Ajay Mishra and arrested him immediately for his role in the incident.
SKM also asked the government to compensate and support the family of around 700 farmers who lost their lives in the movement.
Separately, it also demanded that the martyr warnings be built on the memories of farmers and this land must be given to the same thing on the Singhu border.
The Union Cabinet meeting on the 2488ahad the letter to PM Modi, the farmer union has announced they cling to the protest planned with an Mahapachayat in Lucknow on Monday to urge MSP.
The Union Cabinet is likely to receive approval on Wednesday, the bill to cancel three agricultural laws so that they were introduced in the upcoming winter session, the government’s source said on Sunday.
Spearhead SKM agitation said they would continue the planned protests, including marches to parliament on November 29 to observe a one-year protest of anti-agricultural law.
Kisan Mahapachayat in the capital of Uttar Pradesh assumes significance because the country that depends on agriculture will enter the poll early next year.
Meanwhile, reports that came from various districts said that the farmer group headed to Lucknow to attend Mahapachayat.
(With input from PTI)