Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers’ fight against new laws continues

Paying floral tributes to 33 farmers who had become martyrs, members under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee(AIKSCC) on Sunday vowed to step up their stir against the three farm Acts and Electricity(Amendment) Bill. Wide support Expressing solidarity with their counterparts protesting in New Delhi and other parts of the country for the 25th day, farmers cutting across party lines staged a demonstration in front of the Prakasam Bhavan here. They raised slogans against the three farm Acts and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020. Leading the protest, AIKSCC district convenor Ch.Ranga Rao said people should join the agitation against the ‘black laws’ in a big way as they would pave the way for black marketing of farm produce and spur food inflation. Removal of restrictions on holding of foodgrains would cause 150 to 200% increase in food prices in the future as the agri-marketing firms would release the hoarded stocks only when the market price reached their high target, he explained. Against corporatisation All India Kisan Sabha Prakasam District Secretary P. Venkat Rao said corporatisation of agriculture would spell doom to farmers going by the experiences of growers of herbal and social forestry plantations in the State. It would be the big agri-marketing firms that would rule the roost, said Andhra pradesh Rythu Sangam Prakasam District Secretary Vadde Hanuma Reddy. CPI(ML) farmers wing president Paritala Koteswara Rao said the growing privatisation of the electricity sector would hit hard power consumers including farmers who could not expect the State Government to release subsidy on time for free power scheme.

The Hindu

2020-12-21

ONGOLE,ANDHRA PRADESH