Farmers Movement Archive

Our slogan echoed in Parliament premises: SKM

Bathinda: The slogan of ‘kale kanoon radd karo’ (repeal black laws) were heard in Parliament on the first day of the monsoon session on Monday, Sanyukt Kisabn Morcha said. The morcha had issued a ‘voters’ whip’ to parliamentarians urging them to raise voice against farm laws, which they did in both Houses of Parliament. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to counter the slogans of the opposition MPs by alleging that they were not supportive of women, Dalits, adivasis and other marginalised communities. The PM’s statement was hollow given that the halls of Parliament were echoing with slogans that went straight from the farmers’ movement, SKM opined. The slogans being raised were those of marginalised citizens who were being subjected to the government’s onslaught of laws and policies in various sectors, the morcha alleged, adding it would like to remind the Prime Minister that true respect and dignity would be accorded to marginalised communities of the country only if their interests were protected. “This requires the government to repeal the farm laws, four labour codes and decrease fuel prices,” it said. SKM has condemned some social media posters doing the rounds, asking for a siege of Parliament. All such calls are fake and against the interest of the ongoing farmer movement, it said. Morcha called upon those generating posters and calls for action, to desist from deviating and diverting in any way, their peaceful protests. Delhi Police, despite being informed about Parliament protest plans of the farmers, was terming it ‘Sansad Gherao’. It has been clearly mentioned that there are no plans of laying siege to Parliament thus police are indulging in deliberate misinformation, SKM alleged. SKM stated the Union government was learnt to have listed the Commission for air quality management in national capital region and adjoining areas bill 2021, as well as the electricity amendment bill 2021 under legislative business for the monsoon session. SKM has warned the government against any “reneging of the commitment made to the protesting farmers on December 30, 2020 on these matters”.

The Times of India

2021-07-20

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