Samyukta Kisan Morcha urges President Kovind to remind Centre of its guarantees to farmers

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to remind the Centre of its written guarantees made to farmers, together with on a panel on MSP, and warned that the agitation would resume if they aren’t fulfilled.

In its letter, the SKM mentioned that ever because it introduced the choice to elevate its morchas from Delhi borders, the Union authorities has “gone back on its promises”.

“Through you (Kovind), we warn the government that it should stop testing the patience of the farmers. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has decided to observe ‘MSP legal guarantee week’ from April 11 to April 17.”

“If the government does not fulfil its assurances till then, farmers will be left with no other option but to resume the agitation,” the SKM, an umbrella physique of 40 farm unions, mentioned within the letter.

It mentioned that Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Sanjay Agrawal, in a letter to the SKM on December 9, 2021, had promised {that a} committee can be shaped on minimal assist worth (MSP) for crops.

“So far, the government has neither announced the formation of the committee, nor has given any information about the nature of the committee and its mandate,” the SKM mentioned.

“We request you to remind the Union government of its written promises and get them fulfilled at the earliest and ensure justice in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident,” the letter mentioned.

The SKM had spearheaded a year-long agitation towards the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines.

It had suspended the stir on December 9 final 12 months after the federal government revoked the contentious legal guidelines and agreed to think about its six different calls for, together with withdrawal of instances registered towards farmers in the course of the agitation, a authorized assure on MSP and compensation for kin of farmers who died in the course of the protest.