More than 400 farmer outfits to take part in 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Delhi on March 14: SKM

Ludhiana( Punjab), Mar 2( PTI) The Samyukta Kisan Morcha( SKM), which  commanded a  growers' agitation in 2020- 21, said on Saturday that  further than 400  planter outfits will  share in a" Kisan Mahapanchayat" in Delhi on March 14 to press the BJP- led Centre to accept their demands, including a law on the  minimal support price( MSP) for crops. 

 Thirty- seven  planter bodies, which are part of the SKM, held a meeting on Saturday regarding their proposed" mahapanchayat" at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.   Talking to  journalists, Bharti Kisan Union( Lakhowal) general clerk Harinder Singh Lakhowal said  growers are continuously  floundering for their demands.   In  durability of their struggle, it was decided that a" mahapanchayat" will be organised in the  public capital on March 14, he added.  further than 400  planter organisations from across the country will take part in the" mahapanchayat",  planter leaders said. 

They said they won't travel to Delhi by tractor trolleys, but through  motorcars and trains.   They said they're continuously raising their voice against the Centre regarding their demands, including a legal guarantee on the MSP for all crops and cancellation of the FIRs registered against  growers during the 2020- 21 agitation.  On February 22, the SKM  blazoned that it would hold the" mahapanchayat" in Delhi.   Meanwhile, the  planter leaders also rejected the" zero" FIR registered by the Punjab Police in the Shubhkaran Singh death case.   Singh was killed and around 12 police  labor force were injured in clashes at the Khanauri border between Punjab and Haryana on February 21.   

The SKM(Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha( KMM) are  leading a" Delhi Chalo" march of  growers to press the Centre to accept their demands.   still, the SKM wasn't part of the" Delhi Chalo" call.   The march was put on hold for two days after Singh was killed on February 21. Two days  latterly, the  planter leaders said the protesters would continue to  chamber at Khanauri and Shambhu on Punjab's border with Haryana till February 29.   preliminarily, the  planter leaders rejected the Centre's offer for  earning  beats,  sludge and cotton at the MSP by government agencies for five times, saying it wasn't in their favour.

  In the fourth round of addresses with the  planter leaders on February 18, a panel of three Union ministers proposed that government agencies would buy  beats,  sludge and cotton at the MSP for five times after entering into an agreement with  growers.   The  growers are also demanding the  perpetration of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, pension for  growers and  ranch labourers, no hike in the electricity tariff,  pullout of police cases and" justice" for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the families of the  growers who  failed during the 2020- 21 agitation against three  ranch laws that have ago been repealed. 

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