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Farmers’ protest: Samyukt Kisan Morcha plans daily stir outside Parliament during monsoon session

A group of around 200 farmers will protest against the Centre’s three farm laws outside Parliament every day during the monsoon session, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said on Sunday.

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New Delhi, First Published Jul 5, 2021, 10:17 AM IST

Intensifying their agitation against the three farm laws, farmer organisations protesting at New Delhi’s borders are planning to gherao Parliament during the upcoming Monsoon Session.

A group of around 200 farmers will protest against the Centre’s three farm laws outside Parliament every day during the monsoon session, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said on Sunday.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a platform of more than 35 farm unions spearheading the protests, spurned the government’s offer to put the three laws on hold to look into problems that the farmers may have had with any specific provisions, demanding that the government scrap the legislation entirely.

The monsoon session begins on July 19. Farmers will begin their daily protests on July 22, and will include five members from each organisation represented in the SKM, an umbrella body of farm unions. Earlier plans had called for a mass march to Parliament, but that has been dropped for now.

Before the Parliament session begins, SKM plans to “send a warning letter to all opposition parties in the country, to ensure that the session is used to support the farmers' struggle, and that farmers' demands are met by the government.”

“We will ask the opposition MPs to raise the issue every day inside the House while we will sit outside in protest. We will tell them not to benefit the Centre by walking out of a session. Don't let the session run till the government addresses the issue,” said SKM leader Balbir Singh Rajewal who heads one faction of the Bharatiya Kisan Union.

The opposition MPs have been vocal against the three laws introduced by the government last year. They even staged a walkout when the laws were cleared in Parliament.

Thousands of farmers protesting against the farm laws marched to the national capital in November last year to intensify their agitation. The farmers have been stationed at some border points of Delhi since then, refusing to leave until the government withdraws the laws.

The farmers fear the laws will pave way for the end of the Minimum Support Price system - the central procurement regime which assures guaranteed prices for certain crops.

The government has repeatedly tried to assuage the farmers' concerns, saying that MSP-based procurement will continue.

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