LIC staff show solidarity with protesting farmers
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LIC staff show solidarity with protesting farmers
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Employees of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) staged a demonstration at Lakshmipuram in Guntur on Tuesday, expressing solidarity with farmers protesting in the national capital. Addressing the gathering, Insurance Corporation Employees' Union (ICEU) divisional vice-president S. Prasad and joint secretary V.V.K. Suresh said the new farm Bills passed in Parliament in a hurried manner were detrimental to farmers who constitute the economy’s backbone. The Bills would leave farmers at the mercy of the corporate sector and deprive them of MSP, the speakers said. ‘Repeal Acts’ They demanded that the Central government repeal the Acts and make Minimum Support Prices (MSP) a legally enforceable right as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission. Thousands of farmers are sitting on a strike at the Delhi-Punjab border for the last few days demanding repeal of the farm laws which they allege will deprive them of minimum support price. ICEU leaders N. Bangaru Babu, Y. Ratna Raju, K. Nageswara Rao, M. Rajeswara Rao, and Ch. Madhu Bala were among those present.
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The Hindu
Date
2020-12-02
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VIJAYAWADA,ANDHRA PRADESH