Haryana Govt. Repeating Modi Govt. Failed Tricks on Farmers: SKM

Govt should desist from intimidating and troubling supporters. Such undemocratic tactics are only a reflection of Govt's own weakness

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Representatives of SKM gave a memorandum to the SDM of Kurukshetra to clear the hurdles being placed against Golden Hut.

Haryana Government is facing the heat of the farmers movement in the state with more and more villages are boycotting the BJP-JJP MP, MLAs in the villages.

To counter the increasing resistance the Haryana Chief Minister Mr Manoharlal Khattar resorted to what the Modi Government has already tried unsuccessfully. Manoharlal Khattar showed some farmers faces and claimed that they supported the farm laws and the protesting farmers need to be ‘educated about the new laws’.

It is clear that the has farmers government shows as pro farm laws are also pro-corporate and anti-farmer themselves, or are ones who have no real following on the ground. The Haryana CM met some such farmers yesterday and declared that farmers needed to be educated about the 3 central farm laws. What he had conveniently chosen to ignore is that lakhs of more farmers are now aware of the adverse implications of the farm laws than ever before, thanks to the farmers’ movement led by Samyukt Kisan Morcha and because of the public debate churned up by the agitation.

Even the ones who are inclined to support some so-called “reforms” in agriculture are asking that the laws be repealed. Farmers have understood the negative implications of these laws on their lives, livelihoods and future generations. That is one of the reasons why farmers are ready to sacrifice their lives in this battle to save Kisani (agriculture) in India.

The Government of India had already spent crores of taxpayers’ funds in “educating farmers about the benefits” of the laws and has failed, since such an ‘education’ effort is not even based on truth and evidence. The truth is that prices for farmers continue to be abysmally low pushing them into a debt economy, that farmers continue to be exploited by market forces in regulated market spaces too, and significantly more so in unregulated market spaces, and when the black laws were in force, trading did move out of regulated mandis for many commodities.

SKM warns the Khattar government against deploying wasteful tactics to try and weaken the farmers’ movement, and wants the CM to know that these tactics of the Modi Government have already failed miserably. The Haryana State BJP President Mr Om Prakash Dhankar continued his efforts to defame the protesting farmers. This trick has already failed too.

Harassment of Golden Dhaba Owners

In the face of the growing strength of the farmers’ movement including in Haryana, the state government has decided to borrow one more trick from the BJP government in the centre. It is choosing to harass supporters of the farmers’ movement, in the hope of weakening the movement itself.

Ram Singh Rana, a staunch supporter of the farmers’ movement, who runs Golden Hut dhabas in Kurukshetra and at Singhu/Kundli Border in Sonepat, is now being troubled by the administration which has installed barricades and closed path leading to the dhaba. Ram Singh Rana has spent his personal wealth and income for doing Sewa to the protesting farmers and is unable to earn anymore after the administration’s latest moves.

Samyukt Kisan Morcha pledges its support to Ram Singh Rana and other supporters like him, and farmers will ensure in every possible peaceful way that the administration does not harass them. “The BJP government in Haryana should desist from intimidating and troubling supporters – Such undemocratic tactics are ending up showcasing government’s own weakness here”, said SKM.

A delegation of SKM representatives did a symbolic protest on the highway at Golden Hut Kurukshetra, and later handed over to the SDM of Kurukshetra a memorandum addressed to the DC, wherein a deadline of 2nd July was given to the administration by the farmers, to clear the hurdles being placed against Golden Hut. It was pointed out that the administration was unnecessarily provoking the situation.

In Uttar Pradesh, farmers are having to struggle to get the government to keep wheat procurement centres open till mid-July at least. Protests are underway in different places for this.

Many more contingents of farmers are arriving at different borders from Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and other places. An AIKKMS contingent of farmers from Haryana reached the Dhansa Border today. A tractor-trolley convoy is expected to leave Saharanpur and reach Ghazipur Border after covering Muzaffarnagar and Meerut districts en route, and this will be led by BKU Tikait. Meanwhile, pucca morchas continue in different places, including the one in Satna in Madhya Pradesh (151 days completed), Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Hanumangarh in Rajasthan etc. Teams of representatives of farmer unions are also going village to village in several places to mobilise more support for June 26th “Save Agriculture, Save Democracy Day”.

Issued by -Samyukta Kisan Morcha

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