Patna: Oppn to protest ‘anti-farmer’ policies

PATNA: Members of as many as 40 organisations of sharecroppers, marginal and small farmers, together with the ones affiliated with the Left parties, RJD and Congress will take out a march in Patna on February 18 right through the wintry weather consultation of the assembly to press for his or her calls for and highlight the ‘anti-farmer’ policies of the Centre and the Nitish Kumar executive.


Earlier, the assembly march used to be proposed to be held on February 19, but now it's been rescheduled to February 18 after a meeting of the coordination committee of the organisations held on Sunday. “We be expecting the participation of over 50,000 in the procession,” Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha secretary Lalan Choudhary stated, adding other folks will come from the entire 38 districts of the state.


Among different coordination committee participants belonging to more than a few parties who addressed mediapersons right here had been Ashok Prasad Singh, Manoj Mishra, Kashif, Ramananda Sharma and Gopal Ravidas.


Their calls for integrated declaration of entire state as drought-hit, loan waiver, assured irrigation and 10 decimal land for the landless. They additionally stated that at the same time as the government has announced minimum support worth (MSP) for paddy, the procurement centres have no longer been set up, on account of which farmers, peasants and sharecroppers had been compelled to make its distress sale.


They additionally demanded MSP as consistent with suggestions of the Swaminathan Commission, maintaining that the 3 agriculture street maps had no longer brought any substantial change in the agriculture practices, nor have they helped in providing garage facility and marketplace for the agriculture produce.
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