Farmers announce ‘Parliament March’ in first fortnight of May | Key Points

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Wednesday introduced a “Parliament March” in the first fortnight of May. The date for the march is but to be determined. This is one more symbolic protest towards the three contentious farm legal guidelines, which have been projected by the Centre as main reforms in the agriculture sector that can take away the middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce wherever in the nation. However, farmers have again and again expressed apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the protection cushion of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and get rid of the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of huge corporates.

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KEY POINTS

• The ‘Parliament March’ will probably be joined not simply by farmers, but in addition by ladies, and unemployed people, and labourers who’ve been supporting the motion. 
• Farmer chief Gurnaam Singh Chaduni stated the march could be carried out in a “peaceful” method, and particular care could be taken that “what happened on January 26 is not repeated”. 
• Farmer leaders are additionally planning to type a committee to manage protesters if there’s police motion in parliament march. 
• “We will type a committee to let the protestors know what to do in case there’s police motion through the march. “It will also be made clear to them that SKM condemns all kinds of violence. So the protestors will know that if there is any damage of property by them, they will have to serve the penalty,” a farmer chief stated.
• Farmer leaders additionally introduced their plans to dam the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway for twenty-four hours on April 10.
• “We will be blocking the KMP expressway on April 10 for 24 hours, that is from 11 am on April 10 to 11 am on the next day. “We will probably be doing this as a result of the federal government has not been listening to us. It has been sleeping. This is to get up the federal government,” one other farmer chief stated.

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