Support for agitation by farmers grows, MP farmers leave for Delhi
Farmers from various districts in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday started for Delhi to join the ongoing stir in the national capital demanding scrapping of the three farm laws passed in the parliament recently.
Small groups of farmers took out rallies in Shivpuri, Dewas, Gwalior, Mandsaur and Raisen in protest against the farm bills and then left for the national capital in trucks to join the ongoing agitation.
In Dewas, around 40 farmers marched to the local district collector’s office and submitted a memorandum to deputy collector demanding scrapping the farm laws.
In Mandsaur, the local ‘Kissan Sabha’ staged a demonstration in protest against the farm laws and threatened to intensify the agitation if the Centre did heed to their demand.
Ruling BJP here, however, claimed that the call by some farmers’ bodies to oppose the farm laws have no impact in Madhya Pradesh.
“No recognized farmers’ bodies in MP have so far joined the stir. Only some local leaders have been trying to provoke the farmers to join the agitation. But, they have failed”, BJP spokesman here Rajneesh Agrawal said.
Mr Agrawal said no farmer has joined the stir and only middlemen in the agriculture sector are opposed to the farm laws because they are well aware that the laws will eliminate their role in the market and ensure fair price to the farmers of their produce. Farmers in MP are happy with the Shivraj government for its pro-farmer policies, he of
said.
In Chhattisgarh, several farmers’ bodies and nonBJP parties backed the ongoing farmers’ stir in Delhi.
As many as 50 farmers’ bodies on Saturday organized statewide agitation in Chhattisgarh demanding scrapping of the farm laws.
“Farmers staged demonstrations in every village in Chhattisgarh in protest against the farm laws. Two farmer leaders were arrested during agitation in Marwahi in Bilashpur district”, president of Chhattisgarh Kissan Sabha and Chhattisgarh state secretary of CPM Sanjay Parate said.
All India Farmers’ Alliance along with Aam Admi Party (AAP), Congress, CPI, CPM and Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha held a demonstration in Raipur on Friday evening to protest the farm laws.