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Demanding implementation of a ineligible warrant for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for cultivation produce, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) has organised a farmers’ consciousness yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
Addressing a property league successful Mysuru connected January 16, Morcha nationalist co-convener and Karnataka State Sugarcane Growers’ Association President Kurubur Shanthkumar said the 40-day yatra volition statesman from Kanyakumari connected February 7, and culminate successful Kashmir.
He said farmers had staged year-long agitations astatine the Delhi borderline to caution the Union Government, but nary superior enactment was taken. Following the 131-day hunger onslaught by nationalist husbandman person Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the Supreme Court directed the enactment of a committee to beryllium chaired by retired High Court justice Nawab Singh to taxable a study connected resolving farmers’ issues.
“A 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee connected agriculture has besides submitted a study connected the enactment of an MSP warrant law. Despite the farmers’ demand, the Union Government has not initiated immoderate factual enactment connected bringing the law,” helium argued.
Mr. Shanthkumar said that, owed to the lack of a instrumentality guaranteeing MSP, farmers crossed the state are incurring losses of astir ₹15 lakh crore each year.
The yatra volition walk done respective States, during which signatures volition beryllium collected from farmers successful villages on the route, to make consciousness among farmers and to caution the government.
After the yatra concludes successful Kashmir, a farmers’ normal volition beryllium held astatine Ramlila Maidan successful Delhi connected March 19. A memorandum containing the signatures collected from farmers crossed the state volition beryllium submitted to the Prime Minister, helium said.
Farmer leaders Attahalli Devaraj, Baradanapura Nagaraj, Kiragasuru Shankar, Maraballi Neelakanthappa and Varakuda Nagesh were present.
