Mukesh Tandon
Tribune News Service
Sonepat, November 20
A day after PM Narendra Modi announced the government's decision to repeal the three contentious agriculture laws, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Saturday said it would continue with its announced programmes, including the tractor march to Parliament every day during the winter session starting November 29.
The umbrella body of the farmers' unions also decided to continue the struggle in one form or the other. The SKM said the future course of agitation would be decided in a meeting to be held on Sunday.
Ours is a long-drawn battle: Ugrahan
We will fight for assured MSP and till the government stops facilitating the corporate sector through the back door. We will fight for compensation for kin of farmers who committed suicide. —Joginder singh Ugrahan, BKU Ekta-Ugrahan
To observe one year of the anti-farm law agitation on November 26, the SKM had earlier this month announced that 500 farmers would participate in a peaceful tractor march from Tikri border to Parliament every day till the winter session ends.
Besides, the SKM had also given a call to the farmers of six states — Punjab, Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Rajasthan — to gather at the Delhi borders in large numbers to mark the first anniversary of the agitation. Darshan Pal Singh, convener, SKM, confirmed that they would stick to all programmes announced earlier, including the tractor march to Parliament. He said farmers in states far away from Delhi would mark the first anniversary by holding rallies in capital cities.
Yogendra Yadav, convener, Jai Kisan Andolan, said while the PM had decided to repeal the laws, their main demand for a legal guarantee on MSP had been ignored. Besides, thousands of cases had been registered against agitating farmers in various states, which must be withdrawn unconditionally, he said.
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