SKM plans nationwide stir for farm loan waiver
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 24
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) would hold conventions across the country to highlight the “anti-farmer” policies of the Union Government and urge various organisations to unite under one platform, said Darshan Pal, a senior SKM leader.
Talking to the media after addressing a farmers’ convention here today, Darshan Pal said the SKM was also planning to launch ‘Mission 2024’ and ‘Mission Karja Mukti’ to get the loans of the farmers of the country waived.
Ahead of the Assembly elections in Haryana in 2024, the SKM would approach all political parties to support their cause, he said.
The SKM leader said members, leaders and workers of the SKM had been briefed about the committee constituted by the Central government on the MSP. He said all 26 members named by the Union government were either the members of the BJP or RSS and favoured the three contentious farm laws which were scrapped after a long agitation.
In a meeting held in Ghaziabad on July 4, it was decided to stop the trains for four hours in the country, he said, adding that on July 31, no movement of trains would be allowed in the state. Farmers from Patiala would stop trains at Rajpura entry point of Punjab and Fatehgarh farmers at the Sirhind railway station, he asserted.
Announcing a plan to start a week-long protest against the Agnipath scheme, he said public meetings would be held all over the country to expose the scheme and how it would be harmful for the youths of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP and MP.
Protest over water pollution
Ferozepur: Hundreds of farmers under the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), Punjab, staged a protest against the rising level of pollution in the rivers, particularly the Sutlej. “The polluted water of the Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana has destroyed the Sutlej. The river is also bearing the brunt of untreated effluents being discharged by the municipalities, which is posing health hazards to the people,” said KMSC chief Satnam Singh Pannu. OC
