Despite the center’s proposal to procure pulses, maize, and cotton at MSP for the next five years, farmers’ leaders rejected the government’s proposals. They announced they would continue the Delhi Chalo March on Wednesday, 21 February 2024.
Delhi Chalo March to Continue on 21st February
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Currently, farmers are staying at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders of the Punjab and Haryana. Despite the implementation of the MSP, farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, farm debt waiver, no hike in electricity tariff, pension for farmers and farm laborers, withdrawal of police cases, and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.
Sarwan Singh Pandher, the general secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, has said that the government has presented a proposal to backtrack the farmers from their original demands, and they will not accept it. They will continue their Delhi Chalo march from the 21st of February, and the center will be responsible for the consequences.
Further, he said that if the government does not come to any solution with the talks, they should allow farmers for Delhi Chalo March. But they seem willing to do anything to stop farmers from entering the capital city. Further, they added that police are using bullets on the tractors of the farmers, but DSP is saying that police are not using any bullets on their rally. So, they should punish those using them instead of making false statements. He further said that the situation of Haryana is becoming like Kashmir now.
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