The Kisan Mahapanchayat will be a historic event with at least 15 to 20 lakh participants, claimed Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) protesting the Centre’s three agriculture reform laws.
This was announced on Friday, August 27, following a two-day peasants’ convention called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) at Delhi’s Singhu border. The SKM is an umbrella of several protesting unions.
Union farmer leaders are mobilising support across the country for the September 5 Kisan Mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. Various ‘khaps’ in the western part of the state are engaged in its preparations.
Farmers from different parts of the country have been protesting against the Centre’s three contentious farm laws since November last year.
The umbrella of participating unions has now decided on a new set of protests over the Centre’s three contentious farm laws.
The number of farmers who benefitted in 2018-19 was 1,71,50,873, which increased to 2,04,63,590 in 2019-20 and reached 2,10,07,563 in 2020-21, the government informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Over 10 rounds of talks with the government, which has been projecting the laws at major agricultural reforms, have failed to break the deadlock between the two sides.
The movement is again at a peak, say farmer leaders amid the Monsoon Session of Parliament which convened on July 19 and is scheduled to conclude on August 13.
Narendra Singh Tomar said that since the Centre has no record of farmers having died during the agitation, there is no proposal for compensation to such families.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Haryana chief Gurnam Singh Charuni's "Mission Punjab" pitch has drawn flak with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) seeking to keep its stir apolitical.
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