Farmer unions from 6 states meet Agri Minister, threaten to protest if farm laws are repealed
The ongoing Farmer Protests outside the Delhi Borders against the 3 Farm laws have protesters from 3 states 90% from Punjab and the remaining 10% from Haryana as well as Rajasthan.
Although 2 weeks back, the protestors had invited farmers unions from other parts of the country as well, no ground level support was seen except one farmer union from Maharashtra which is visible that the only support being extended to the protest in only from Congress ruled states.
Meanwhile on Sunday, heads of 10 farmer unions from Kerala, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, UP, Bihar and Telangana came to meet the Agricultural Minister and requested him to not repeal the farm laws as they were beneficial for them.
Their simple demands were that they would agree the demands with a few modifications including the MSP which the government had already accepted for the other anti-farm law protestors as well.
The delegation, led by Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (Mann) Haryana state leader Guni Prakash, submitted a “letter of support” to Tomar on the farm laws passed by Parliament in September and demanded the government to continue with these legislations.
“We will also protest if the government repeals the laws. We have given a memorandum to all districts,” Prakash told reporters after the meeting. He also sought to know why the previous government did not implement the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission till 2014.
It is interesting to see as to what the government does following such contradicting demands of the same latter.
The problems which were mentioned by protesting farmers had been noted and solutions were given as the government said they will ‘modify’ the laws according to everything the farmers want but apparantly the protest isn’t about farmers anymore but about the ego of peope of anti-government ideologies.
Most of the new demands of Farmers are not even connected to Farm laws anymore which is unreasonable for the government to accept.
Now the question is will the people who are supporting the protesting farmers also support these farmers? Or is the #iSupportFarmers hashtag only for the anti-government protestors?
