Farmers criticise ‘One nation, one market’
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Farmers criticise ‘One nation, one market’
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Tarn Taran, June 8Members of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab, staged a protest over several pending demands of farmers and farm labourers outside the District Administrative Complex (DAC) on Monday. They submitted a memorandum regarding their demands to officials.To hold protest amid the pandemic, the members reached the site in large numbers on tractor-trailers, violating the social distancing norm. They also sat close to each other during the protest.The ‘One nation, one market’ policy will deprive farmers of the minimum support price and ruin the farming sector. So, the decision must be rolled back.Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra, district president of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh CommitteeAddressing the gathering, Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra, the district president of the organisation, criticised the Union Government’s policy of ‘One nation, one market’, saying the policy would deprive the farmers of the minimum support price (MSP) and ruin the farming sector. The organisation demanded rollback of the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Act 2020 which “would privatise the electricity system and raise power tariffs.”
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The Tribune
Date
2020-06-09