New Delhi: Farmers’ organizations will start marching toward Delhi on Wednesday to press their various demands to the central government. The latest move is in accordance with the course of protest announced by SKM.
Their various demands to the central government include a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, and no hike in electricity tariffs.
Yesterday in the press conference by KMM, a farmer leader said, “Tomorrow, on March 6, farmers from all over India will march peacefully towards Jantar Mantar in Delhi”.
He said that farmers from various states made their arrangements for marching to the national capital.
“Farmers from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar have made all preparations to move to Delhi for the march,” Singh added.
Meanwhile, Delhi Police have beefed up the security at the Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur borders, and railway and metro stations and bus stands in view of the farmers’ protest march.
The farmers have also called for a four-hour countrywide ‘rail roko’ on March 10.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) national body has given a call for the Mahapanchayat in Delhi on March 14 to highlight issues of a legal guarantee of MSP, against the electricity amendment bill, freedom from debt, old age pension, rolling back of labour codes, and other pending issues.