Govt accepts all our demands, says farmer leader; SKM to decide future course of action on Dec 4
India | December 01, 2021 0:04 ISTThe Centre has sought 5 names from farmer unions for the panel on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and other issues.
The Centre has sought 5 names from farmer unions for the panel on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and other issues.
Rakesh Tikait said that though the government has repealed the farm laws, the farmers' problems will not come to an end with this as the government is trying to bring in various anti-farmer laws.
The farm laws are to be repealed today in the parliament. Speaking exclusively with India TV, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait called the farm laws a 'disease' for farmers and called their repeal a necessary step.
Parliament on Monday passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 amid sloganeering by Opposition MPs.
In a snipe attack at the Modi-led government at the mahapanchayat at Mumbai's Azad Maidan, Tikait reminded that 'Republic day is not far' and that 4 lakh farmers are all at the borders.
The 'Kisaan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' will be hosted by over 100 organisations under the banner of Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha (SSKM) and will be addressed by SKM leaders.
The farmers' agitation will continue till their demands, including a legal guarantee for MSP, are fulfilled and also until the Centre holds parleys with them, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said. BKU national spokesperson said they (BJP government) announced repealing of the three farm laws, but it will not solve the issues. There are several issues of farmers that need to be resolved. "The farmers' protest will continue till the central government resumes talks on their demands, including Minimum Support Price (MSP) guarantee law," Tikait said.
Calling the AIMIM leader an 'unbridled bull', Tikait alleged that Owaisi says something else but has some other goal. He added, "Don't let him go out of Hyderabad and Telangana."
Rakesh Tikait said that the government should accept farmers' demand for a law on the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Rakesh Tikait said it took almost one year to make the "government understand that that the farm laws will harm the farmers, workers and shopkeepers of the country".
Asaduddin Owaisi while addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki on Sunday demanded the repeal of CAA and NRC and warned that protestors will 'turn streets into Shaheen Bagh' if the two laws are not scrapped.
Tikait said that issues like cases against farmers, electricity bills, MSP guarantee need to be resolved before the conclusion of the agitation.
The Congress and Left parties have also demanded that a law should be enacted on the MSP guarantee while repealing the three laws from last year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about repealing the farm laws on Friday. But now the biggest question is, will the farmers now go back to their homes? Rakesh Tikait had a special conversation with India TV on the same. Watch this episode of Muqabla with Ajay Kumar.
In his address to the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, PM Narendra Modi said the three farm laws will be repealed in the coming Winter session of Parliament.
Rakesh Tikait also stressed that the government should talk to farmers over the issue of minimum support price (MSP) of crops and other matters.
Rakesh Tikait said a 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' will be held in Lucknow on November 22, four days ahead of the anti-farm law protest at Delhi borders completing one year.
Farmers have been protesting at different sites since November 26 last year against the three enacted farm laws. Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains.
The Delhi Police on Thursday evening started removing the barricades and concertina wires it had put in place at the anti-farm laws protest site at Tikri Border on Delhi-Rohtak highway.
Earlier on Thursday, the Delhi Police had begun removing barricades placed at the Tikri and Ghazipur borders where farmers have been protesting against the Centre's three farm laws.
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