Second Leg Of Indian Farmers Agitation Begins On November 26

By Dr. Gyan Pathak

The primary part of farmers agitation of India was referred to as off on December 11, 2021 after the three controversial farm legal guidelines had been repealed fulfilling the chief demand of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha. Nevertheless, the opposite calls for together with assured Minimal Assist Worth (MSP) remained unfulfilled even after one yr. Farmers are feeling cheated by the false guarantees of the Modi authorities and due to this fact began the second part of farmers’ agitation from November 26 by organizing their march to governors throughout the nation. Farmers’ organisations would once more meet on December 20 to resolve the additional course of their agitation.

The memorandum of calls for submitted by the SKM has added three new calls for – mortgage waiver for farmers, pension for farmers above 60 years of age, and crop insurance coverage – to the prevailing calls for of assured MSP for crops, and cancellation of all instances registered towards the farmers throughout their agitation, and justice for Lakhimpur Kheri victims killed allegedly by a Union Minister’s son’s car operating over them.

The primary part of farmers agitation was begun within the first week of August 2020 simply after passage of the three controversial farm legal guidelines. A name to Delhi March on November 26 was given, and the farmers assembled had been barricaded on the three borders of Delhi, the place they began their sit-in protest on the very day, thus making the official starting of the historic farmers protest within the unbiased India. The agitations was referred to as off on December 11, 2021, however solely after the Union authorities had promised to meet all of the justified calls for of the agitating farmers. Over 750 farmers had died through the year-long farmers’ agitation.

It needs to be recalled {that a} promise was given by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a televised tackle on November 19, 2021 on the event of “Guru Parb” to repeal the three controversial farm legal guidelines. He had even lamented his authorities’s incapacity to persuade farmers of the regulation’s benefits. Subsequently on November 29, each the Homes of the Parliament of India handed the Farm Legal guidelines Repeal Invoice, 2021 by voice vote and two days later the invoice was signed by the President of India.

The SKM protest march on November 26, 2022 has been organised to mark the day when the agitation began on the Delhi borders in 2020. SKM has stated that the members of 32 farmers’ organisations are collaborating on this march to governors throughout the nation. SKM has stated that even a yr later, the Union authorities’s stand over our calls for, on which they’d agreed on paper, are but to be applied.

As for the demand of authorized assure on the MSP, the SKM has stated that the Union authorities isn’t prepared to contemplate this demand. Union authorities has reasonably provided authorities’s committee to resolve on it, however SKM has rejected the supply seeing the federal government’s unbending stand on the difficulty.

The SKM leaders have but once more demanded justice for the 5 folks – 4 farmers and one journalist – killed final yr in Lakhimpur Kheri, and likewise sacking of the Union Minister of State for House Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra, whose son Ashish is the prime accused within the case.

SKM’s chief demand contains Legally assured Minimal Assist Worth; Freedom from indebtedness via a complete mortgage waiver scheme; Withdrawal of Electrical energy Modification Invoice 2022; Dismissal and authorized motion towards Union Minister of State for House Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni; Complete and efficient crop insurance coverage scheme to speedily compensate farmers for crop loss attributable to pure calamities; Pension of Rs 5,000 monthly to all marginal, small and medium scale farmers and agricultural employees; Withdrawal of all false instances registered towards farmers through the agitation towards now repealed farm legal guidelines; and Fee of compensation to households of all farmers who died throughout agitation.

Presently, SKM has stated, the demand for authorized assure for MSP is the most important wrestle. Farmers throughout the nation are behind this demand since it’s important for his or her survival.

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Haryana had been chief among the many states the place farmers noticed the Rajbhawan March of November 26, 2022.

SKM leaders are reaching out to folks for his or her assist. They’ve additionally given the Union authorities totally different choices to make farming much less onerous for farmers. They’ve even requested to make correct association to scale back enter prices in farming. Farmers’ unions are assembly on December 8, to resolve on the course of agitation and its kind. Statements of leaders of assorted farmers’ union point out that they’re prepared to steer the second part of agitation to its logical conclusion.

The second part of farmers’ agitation goes to be extra difficult within the context of the March 21, 2022 launch of the report of the high-powered skilled panel constituted by the Supreme Court docket that stated 86 per cent of the farmer organisations representing 38.3 million farmers supported the farm legal guidelines. The panel stated that they acquired over 19,000 representations from numerous teams, and on the idea of that they’ve concluded that the repeal and lengthy suspension of farm legal guidelines can be unfair to the silent majority of farmers. The report was really submitted to the Supreme Court docket on March 19, 2021. The agitating farmers had criticised the structure of the Committee on the bottom that it included some individuals who had been already know for favouring the legal guidelines and SKM didn’t take part within the Committee. (IPA Service)

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