Chandigarh: Amid the ongoing protest of the farmers at Shambhu and Khanauri borders of Punjab and Haryana, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (KMM) leaders have written to President Droupadi Murmu seeking an appointment with her to discuss farmers issues.
It may be recalled that a large number of farmers have been camping at the two borders named above under the aegis of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the KMM since February 13 last to press the Centre for their demands including a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for the crops.
They had also repeatedly attempted to take out their “Delhi chalo’’ foot-march towards Delhi but were stopped by the Haryana police by lobbing teargas shells and using water cannons which left several farmers injured.
The SKM leaders in their statement issued on Thursday said they had urged the President for an appointment at an early date and time convenient to her, to share with her farmers’ concerns on the precarious situation and the rising unrest among the farmers.
“In the context of the deteriorating health condition of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal and on other pressing issues confronting farmers, farm workers and the agriculture sector, including the introduction of the National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing, the farmers across the country has observed protest in districts across the country on 23rd December 2024 under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM)’’, the SKM leaders’ letter read.
“Farmers across the country from more than 500 districts had submitted Memorandum to you (through District Magistrates) soliciting your urgent intervention to facilitate discussion between the Union Government and all the farmer organisations on the long pending genuine demands, the neglect to which has led to the present situation’’, it added.
Meanwhile, the health of Dallewal, 70, who is a cancer patient and who has been on a fast-unto-death at Khanuari border since November 26, calling on the Centre to address the farmers’ demands, continued to worsen.
