120 organisations to demand ban on release of GM crop

Representatives of over 120 organisations from 20 states will gather at Jantar Mantar here on Monday to demand a ban on commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard.

“At a juncture when the government is disregarding voices of experts and farmer leaders, of state governments and citizen groups on all these matters, this assembly in Jantar Mantar assumes great significance,” said Kavitha Kuruganti from Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA).

Leaders from various political parties, major farmerunions, etc will join the protest to showsolidarity towards the issue

She said leaders from various political parties, major farmer unions, trade unions, honey industry representatives, people’s movements and other civil society formations and scientists will join to show solidarity towards the issue.

“Citizens from 20 states of India, who are mainly representatives of around 30 large national organisations or alliances and more than 120 state level or local bodies will join Sarson Satyagraha protest against GM mustard and to press home their demand for an immediate ban on it and other such GMOs,” she said.