NEW DELHI: One day before the celebration of the ‘Shraddhanjali Diwas’ (Day of Tribute) in memory of protesting farmers who died during the ongoing upheaval, agricultural unions wrote a joint ‘open’ letter to the Prime Minister on Saturday Narendra Modi and the Minister of Agriculture. Narendra Singh Tomar saying that it was the protest of the peasants that forced the opposition political parties to change their position and not the other way around as the government is erroneously propagating.
Farmers unions have planned to reach more than one lakh villages across the country while observing ‘Shraddhanjali Diwas’ on Sunday, even as the government has been in informal talks with various organizations to end the current stalemate.
As more and more farmers from Haryana began to gather at the borders in solidarity with their counterparts in PunjabHaryana Prime Minister ML Khattar met with Tomar on Sunday and learned that he discussed issues related to farmer unrest and the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal water exchange involving Punjab.
Insisting that the central agricultural laws It would only be beneficial to corporations and multinationals, the union coordinating body, AIKSCC, issued specific clarifications on what Tomar had said in its ‘open’ letter to farmers two days ago, and reiterated its demand to repeal the agricultural laws.
“It seems that he is only trying to create a misunderstanding about the farmers’ movement, as he preferred to write an ‘open’ letter rather than call a meeting to find a solution,” said the AIKSCC addressing Tomar. the Center however, he has said on multiple occasions that the government was ready for clause-by-clause discussions with agricultural leaders to find a solution.
As well as explaining how farm laws would benefit farmers, Tomar in his open letter on Thursday seemed to point CongressThe left-aligned farmers unions, AAP, SAD and some experts, say that the same group of like-minded people has, for the past six years, been trying to create unrest in society while hiding behind at times. the students, sometimes behind the ‘dalits’, women or minorities. “The same people, once again, while hiding behind the country’s farmers, directly or indirectly promoted unrest for their political interests,” Tomar had said.
Responding to the prime minister on linking the ongoing protests to opposition parties, the farmers’ unions in their letter said: “If you look at our demands carefully, you may find that none of our demands have anything to do with no political party. ” They were referring to the comments made by Modi during his speech to ‘Kisan sammelan‘, held in MP, by videoconference on Friday. On the agriculture minister’s point that farmers would not lose their land at any cost under the new agricultural laws, the AIKSCC said in its letter that Tomar’s claim was in contradiction with the 2020 Contract Law, which provided that “the Farmers’ lands would be mortgaged under Section 9 and for the recovery of the farmer’s fees u / s 14.7 as arrears of the income from the land for advances taken from the company under article 14.2 of the Laws ”.
On the minister’s guarantees on MSP and acquisitions, unions said such claims had backfired in the face of Niti Aayog experts who openly asserted that the government has excessive stocks of food with no place to store and no money to buy.
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