AIKSCC intensifies stir against farm Acts
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AIKSCC intensifies stir against farm Acts
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Members of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee(AIKSCC) staged a demonstration in front of an outlet retail firm on Friday in protest against the three “corporate-friendly” farm Acts enacted by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA Government at the Centre. Call to boycott goods Members of the AIKSCC, an umbrella organisation of farmer and farm labourer organisations, gave a call to boycott all goods and services offered by the country’s largest retail firm, which they opined would stand to benefit by trading in farm produce. Expressing solidarity with their counterparts staging a protest in New Delhi, they shouted slogans against corporatisation of agriculture. Farmers would have no option but to become labourers as the provisions of the three Acts were heavily loaded in favour of the corporate sector, felt Acharya N.G.Ranga Kisan Sabha General Secretary Ch.Seshaiah. The Acts were coined in a manner to enable the corporate firms dictate the purchase and sale price of Rs. 62 lakh crore farm produce much against the interests of farmers on the one hand and consumers on the other, said All India Kisan Mazdoor Sangh Prakasam district secretary. All India Kisan Sabha district secretary P. Venkat Rao, Andhra pradesh Rythu Sangaam district secretary V. Hanuma Reddy, Communist Party of India(CPI) district secretary M.L. Narayana, CPI(Marxist) district secretary P.Anjaneyulu were among those who led the protest demanding scrapping of the farm Acts.
Publisher
The Hindu
Date
2020-12-19
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ONGOLE,ANDHRA PRADESH