Image Source : PTI Farm legal guidelines are dying warrant for farmers: Arvind Kejriwal
AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met farmer leaders from Western UP on Sunday and demanded that the BJP-ruled central authorities withdraw the three farm legal guidelines, terming them “death warrant” for farmers. The assembly got here forward of a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ that Kejriwal is scheduled to handle on February 28 in Western UP’s Meerut. The AAP has already introduced that it’s contesting the Assembly polls in UP in 2022 and this would be the first main look of Kejriwal within the poll-bound state.
Over 40 farmer leaders from Western UP area that has been lively within the farm legal guidelines protests at Delhi borders, specifically Ghazipur border level with neighbouring UP, attended the assembly held at Delhi Assembly premises.
“These anti-farmer legal guidelines are dying warrants to the farmers. With the implementation of those legal guidelines the crops will go to the fingers of some industrialists and the farmers of India will grow to be labourers in their very own land.
“The central government should immediately withdraw all the three black laws and extend legal guarantee of MSP on all the 23 crops following the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission,” the AAP chief stated.
The authorities ought to discuss to the farmers. If the federal government doesn’t take heed to the farmers then who will, he questioned.
No consultant of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is main the protest towards farm legal guidelines at Delhi borders for almost three months, was current within the assembly, sources stated. The outfit has already declared its agitation as non-political one.
“Meerut Kisan mahapanchayat on February 28 will be joined by the farmers in large numbers. Discussion on the three farm laws will take place during that Mahapanchayat where immediate rollback of these laws brought by the BJP-ruled central government will be demanded by the farmers,” Kejriwal stated.
The BJP is repeatedly saying that these legal guidelines will profit the farmers however its leaders have but not clarified how, he added.
Talking to the media, farmer chief Rohit Jakhar of Rashtriya Jat Mahasangh stated that whereas the UP authorities minimize electrical energy and water provide on the Ghazipur protest website, Kejriwal’s authorities supported farmers’ protest by offering them water and bathrooms.
“Our support will go to those who will talk about our problems. The BJP government has hurt our self respect, we will give our reply through our votes,” Jakhar stated.
He stated Kejriwal gave respect to the farmer leaders simply as Lord Krishna gave respect to his pal, Sudama, and asserted the agitation will proceed until the Centre fulfills farmers calls for.
Another participant of the assembly, Chaudhary Yashpal Singh, stated, “Arvind Kejriwal has assured us support.”
The assembly was additionally attended by Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, Cabinet ministers Kailash Gehlot and Rajendra Pal Gautam, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and MLA Dilip Pandey.
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