New Delhi: A month after suspending its agitation and abandoning the permanent protest sites on the Delhi border, the United Kisan Morcha (USF).SKM) – A joint forum of farmers’ unions opposing the three central agricultural laws decided to resume their protest on Saturday Lakhimpur Kheri In Uttar Pradesh on January 21 and in electoral states, forward it as ‘Mission Uttar Pradesh’ and ‘Mission Uttarakhand’ and call for vote against BJP from February 1.
The farmers’ renewed protest will focus on their demand to complete their pending issues, including withdrawal of cases against farmers, compensation to the kin of those killed during the protests and action against junior home minister Ajay Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. . In October last year, eight persons including four farmers and a journalist.
The SKM will set up a permanent ‘Morcha’ (protest site) at Lakhimpur Kheri to further its goal of ‘Mission UP’, which will follow the model adopted by it in West Bengal where it urged voters to “not vote for BJP”. appealed to. Call for vote injury) without saying who to vote for last year.
Farmers’ Protest 2.0 will take its first major step on the ground on January 31 by celebrating ‘Betrayal Day’ in the form of district and block level demonstrations across the country. These decisions were taken in the meeting of SKM at Singhu border on Saturday. The meeting was called to review progress on the government’s promises to farmer unions, ending the year-long protest on December 10 last year.
“The Center has neither formed any committee on the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP) nor approached us till now. No action by the Center as well as the State Governments in Madhya Pradesh, UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. A promise to withdraw cases against farmers immediately. The government has not removed Ajay Mishra from the Union Cabinet despite the SIT report admitting conspiracy Yudhveer Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Tikait).
“The government has betrayed the farmers and that is why we will observe ‘Betrayal Day’ on January 31 across the country,” he said. The SKM will decide the roadmap for the protests in the next few days after the visit of farmer leaders led by the BKU leader. Rakesh TikaitIn Lakhimpur Kheri and other parts of UP to prepare for ‘Mission UP’.
Rakesh Tikait said, “We will go to Lakhimpur Kheri for 3-4 days from January 21 and meet the affected farmer families. We will discuss and plan the further course of action for our agitation.”
The SKM meeting on Saturday was not attended by leaders of unions that had decided to contest the assembly elections in Punjab. United Samaj Morcha, “Those unions are no longer part of the SKM. Any farmer organization or leader associated with our Morcha, contesting or playing an important role for any party in an election, will no longer be in the SKM. The decision will be reviewed after these assembly elections in the month of April,” said Joginder Singh Ugrahan, leader of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan).
The Morcha in its meeting also decided to support and support the two-day nationwide strike announced by the trade unions on February 23-24. The country’s central trade unions have called for a nationwide strike on issues like withdrawal of four labor codes and giving MSP guarantee to farmers. Trade unions are also against privatization of public sector undertakings/banks.
On the issue of withdrawal of cases and compensation to the kin of farmers killed during the agitation, the farmer leaders said that although Haryana The government has done some paperwork, other state governments and Indian Railways have done nothing on what the Center promised us.
“The UP government has not initiated any action on compensation to the families of the martyr farmers. No announcement has been made by the Haryana government regarding the amount and nature of the compensation. On the issue of MSP, the government neither formed the government. The committee has neither given any information about the nature of the committee nor its mandate, the SKM said in a statement.
The farmers’ renewed protest will focus on their demand to complete their pending issues, including withdrawal of cases against farmers, compensation to the kin of those killed during the protests and action against junior home minister Ajay Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. . In October last year, eight persons including four farmers and a journalist.
The SKM will set up a permanent ‘Morcha’ (protest site) at Lakhimpur Kheri to further its goal of ‘Mission UP’, which will follow the model adopted by it in West Bengal where it urged voters to “not vote for BJP”. appealed to. Call for vote injury) without saying who to vote for last year.
Farmers’ Protest 2.0 will take its first major step on the ground on January 31 by celebrating ‘Betrayal Day’ in the form of district and block level demonstrations across the country. These decisions were taken in the meeting of SKM at Singhu border on Saturday. The meeting was called to review progress on the government’s promises to farmer unions, ending the year-long protest on December 10 last year.
“The Center has neither formed any committee on the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP) nor approached us till now. No action by the Center as well as the State Governments in Madhya Pradesh, UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. A promise to withdraw cases against farmers immediately. The government has not removed Ajay Mishra from the Union Cabinet despite the SIT report admitting conspiracy Yudhveer Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Tikait).
“The government has betrayed the farmers and that is why we will observe ‘Betrayal Day’ on January 31 across the country,” he said. The SKM will decide the roadmap for the protests in the next few days after the visit of farmer leaders led by the BKU leader. Rakesh TikaitIn Lakhimpur Kheri and other parts of UP to prepare for ‘Mission UP’.
Rakesh Tikait said, “We will go to Lakhimpur Kheri for 3-4 days from January 21 and meet the affected farmer families. We will discuss and plan the further course of action for our agitation.”
The SKM meeting on Saturday was not attended by leaders of unions that had decided to contest the assembly elections in Punjab. United Samaj Morcha, “Those unions are no longer part of the SKM. Any farmer organization or leader associated with our Morcha, contesting or playing an important role for any party in an election, will no longer be in the SKM. The decision will be reviewed after these assembly elections in the month of April,” said Joginder Singh Ugrahan, leader of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan).
The Morcha in its meeting also decided to support and support the two-day nationwide strike announced by the trade unions on February 23-24. The country’s central trade unions have called for a nationwide strike on issues like withdrawal of four labor codes and giving MSP guarantee to farmers. Trade unions are also against privatization of public sector undertakings/banks.
On the issue of withdrawal of cases and compensation to the kin of farmers killed during the agitation, the farmer leaders said that although Haryana The government has done some paperwork, other state governments and Indian Railways have done nothing on what the Center promised us.
“The UP government has not initiated any action on compensation to the families of the martyr farmers. No announcement has been made by the Haryana government regarding the amount and nature of the compensation. On the issue of MSP, the government neither formed the government. The committee has neither given any information about the nature of the committee nor its mandate, the SKM said in a statement.
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