New Delhi: The farmers’ body Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the joint platform of central trade unions and federations has begun, as part of its first all-India convention, a three-day mass sit-in at the national capital on November 26.
The organisations have claimed that tens of thousands of farmers and workers, especially women and youth, will participate in the protests, which they have called ‘Mahapadavs’.
These will continue for the next two days and and end on November 28. Similar protests have and are supposed to take place in various capital cities of states, including Chandigarh, Panchkula, Shimla, Dehradun, Srinagar, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Chennai, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram.
Their major demands include legally guaranteed Minimum Support Price for all crops along with procurement, comprehensive loan waivers for all the peasant households, the withdrawal of the Electricity Bill, 2022, along with the four labour codes, a minimum wage of Rs 26,000 per month, the eradication of unemployment and enactment of employment as fundamental right, the strengthening of MGNREGS with 200 days of job per year and Rs 600 as daily wage, the halt of privatisation of public sector units and that of price rise and finally, the dismissal and prosecution of Ajay Mishra Teni, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs.
Mishra’s son Ashish is out on bail after a car linked to him mowed down four farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri during the farmers’ protests against the now rolled back central laws. The violence in the aftermath of this incident led to the death of four more people. The protesters have called ‘Teni’ the “chief conspirator of the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre of farmers, among others.”
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