BKU (Charuni) renews demand for ₹500 bonus on wheat MSP
KARNAL/AMBALA: A group of farmers, led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni) president Gurnam Singh Charuni, on Monday held protests in Kurukshetra.
Farmers affiliated with BKU (Charuni) also gathered at the deputy commissioners’ offices in Ambala and Yamunanagar to protest over their pending demands.
District union presidents Malkit Singh and Sanju Gudiana handed over a memorandum of demands, addressed to the chief minister, to the respective district authorities.
Similar protests were also organised at Karnal and Kaithal districts.
The farmers’ demands include government increasing power supply to the agriculture sector, Rs 500 bonus on wheat MSP, compensation to farmers whose crops and fodder were burnt in farm fires.
The farmers have also demanded the government to lift ban from sale and transportation of dry wheat fodder outside Haryana.
Addressing a gathering of farmers at Kurukshetra’s minisecretariat, Charuni said the
THE FARMERS HAVE ALSO ASKED THE KHATTAR GOVERNMENT TO LIFT BAN FROM SALE AND TRANSPORTATION OF DRY WHEAT FODDER OUTSIDE THE STATE
farmers are suffering as their crops are dying due to lack of required power supply.
He accused the government of harassing the farmers by imposing a ban on fodder sale instead of providing relief to the farmers.