Kisan Mahapanchayat supports farmers’ stir
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Title
Kisan Mahapanchayat supports farmers’ stir
Description
Jaipur: Members of Kisan Mahapanchayat while extending support to the agitating farmers of Punjab and Haryana protesting against the recent Centre’s farm laws left for Delhi under the leadership of president Rampal Jat on Saturday.Jat in a statement said the central government which supported a private member’s bill for minimum support price guarantee on August 8, 2014, has brought in three bills which are anti-farmer.He said the central government instead of addressing the grievances of the farmers, resorted to high handed methods to suppress them.He said the Prime Minister on one hand says the minimum support price would continue, but on the other hand the farmers were forced to sell their produce of millet and maize at very low prices in the absence of MSP.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-11-29
Coverage
Jaipur