Farmers Movement Archive

Kisan Sansad held in Jaipur, passes resolution on MSP

JAIPUR: The Kisan Sansad, organised at Birla Auditorium on Wednesday, passed a resolution to make a law ensuring legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) for agricultural produce and rejected all the three farm laws passed by the Centre. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot welcomed all the farmers participating in the Kisan Sansad. “I welcome all the farmers participating in the Kisan Sansad organised at Birla auditorium, Jaipur. Organising the event on the ‘Day of Democracy’ is important as our farmers have been leading an agitation against farm laws in a peaceful manner following democratic norms of protest,” Gehlot tweeted. “The farmers deserve much appreciation for their disciplined approach and the manner in which they carried the agitation for several months braving all odds, facing hardships and without losing hope. The Central government must listen to our farmers and resolve the issue. Farm laws must be taken back,” he added. The bill to ensure legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) was tabled at the Kisan Sansad by farmer leader from Rajasthan Himmat Singh. Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s Gurnam Singh Chaduni, Balbir Singh Rajewala, Darshan Pal Singh were nominated shadow ministers who gave their replies on the bill. Earlier, 542 members, who were nominated as MPs, participated in the discussion. The third resolution which was passed in the Sansad was to educate people in the villages about the three farm laws by organising ‘Kisan Sansad’ at the panchayat level. The sansad also took a decision to form a ‘kisan committee’ to discuss on a few key points of the bill on MSP. SKM leader Darshan Pal Singh said they had already rejected the Supreme court-appointed panel on farm laws. “The idea behind organising the Sansad is to spread the message, discuss and educate people about the three farms laws. We haven’t received any invitation from the government since the last meeting with them on January 22,” said Pal. “Today, we should pass a law ensuring legal guarantee on MSP in this sansad. Later, this law must be accepted by the Centre and should implement it.” Chaduni, meanwhile, said, “Every year the farmers in the country earn Rs 3 lakh crore less than the fixed MSP. The government says where shall we arrange that amount from? However, for the central and state government employees, under the 7th pay commission, the total salary increases by Rs 4 lakh crore every year. Therefore, we demand that farmers must get the benefit of 100 per cent MSP on agricultural produce that they sell in the market.”

The Times of India

2021-09-16

Jaipur