Withdraw order or face stir: Kisan Sabha

The Bharatiya Kisan Sabha Haryana State Committee has strongly opposed the letter issued by the Agriculture Department regarding registration of the FIRs against the farmers who burn stubble and also to impose a ban of selling the produce in the market for two seasons.

Demanding that the government take back this order, it threatened to launch an agitation. Kisan Sabha state co-secretary Dinesh Siwach said as soon as the BJP came back to power, it implemented anti-farmer decisions.

“The order issued by the Agriculture Department is one-sided and will fail to make arrangements for stubble management along with curbing other factors of pollution. The government is making big claims about stubble management but it has completely failed in this,” he said adding that farmers were being intimidated and threatened, which would not be tolerated. He further said there were many reasons for pollution like big industries, factories, traffic, etc. but the government saw pollution only in stubble.

The Kisan Sabha said farmers would be forced to stage protests if the government continued to carry out such dictatorial orders to target the farmers.

The Kisan Sabha Haryana State Committee demanded from the government to make arrangements for stubble management. It said the government could get stubble collected through panchayats, increase the subsidy amount given to farmers so that the cost of the farmer could be reduced. It asked the government to stop blaming the farmers for all the pollution.

Meanwhile, Congress MP from Sirsa Kumari Selja said that the decision to register the FIR and marking of red entry in their records to impose a ban on them for selling produce on the MSP in the grain markets was a direct attack on the farmers. She said the government should come up with a solution rather than imposing punitive action against the farmers.

Asks govt to help manage stubble

• The Kisan Sabha Haryana State Committee demanded from the government to make arrangements for

  stubble management

• It said the government could get stubble collected through panchayats, increase the subsidy amount given to farmers so that the cost to the farmer could be reduced