United Farmers’ Front stages black-badge protest in Krishnagiri

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The farmers demanded 200 days of enactment    nether  MGNREGS with a wage   precocious   of ₹700 per day.

The farmers demanded 200 days of enactment nether MGNREGS with a wage precocious of ₹700 per day. | Photo Credit: BASHKARAN N.

The Left-affiliated United Farmers’ Front staged a black-badge protestation successful Krishnagiri connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) demanding that the Union authorities fulfil the demands of the farmers’ federations raised during the Delhi protests, which were earlier agreed upon by the government.

The protesters urged the authorities to instrumentality the M.S. Swaminathan Commission recommendations connected Minimum Support Price, modulate Micro Finance Institutions’ exploitative lending practices and denote write-off connected each workplace loans without caveats.

The protesters besides called for a halt to the privatisation of power, extremity the usage of astute metres and called for escaped powerfulness for up to 300 units. They demanded 200 days of enactment nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) with a wage precocious of ₹700 per day.

The farmers federations besides called for 4 times the compensation for onshore acquisitions nether the Acquisitions Act, pension of ₹10,000 for farmers and workplace workers, reverse the removal of import taxation connected milk, revoke the Free Trade Agreement with the United States among others demands.

Published - November 26, 2025 09:01 p.m. IST

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