Lucknow Mahapanchayat, Tractor March will happen till Parliament: Farmers

New Delhi, Dt
The Center on Friday announced the repeal of three controversial agricultural laws to quell the farmers' agitation that has been going on for almost a year. However, the farmers' movement is not over. On the contrary, the farmers have decided to hold a tractor march on November 9 in Lucknow to the Mahapanchayat and on November 9 to the Parliament. The farmers announced yesterday that the agitation would continue till the agricultural laws are withdrawn in Parliament. Now the government is worried that the farmers will continue their agitation till their six demands, including a written guarantee on MSP before the Center, are met.
The Kisan Samyukta Morcha meeting was held on Saturday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of three controversial agricultural laws on Prakash Parva. The meeting was attended by the leaders of all the agitating farmers' organizations. Farmer leader and member of the core committee of the United Kisan Morcha (SKM), Dr. Darshan Pale said the agitation would continue till the process of repealing the three agricultural laws was completed in Parliament and a written guarantee on support prices was received. A final decision on the future outline of the movement and MSP issues will be taken at a meeting of the Joint Kisan Morcha at Singhu Border on Sunday.
He added that the Kisan Samyukta Morcha has planned to hold a Mahapanchayat on November 9 in Lucknow, the 9th to mark the one year anniversary of the farmers' movement across the country. As part of this plan, during the winter session starting from November 9, a march with 200 tractors will be taken out to Parliament daily. We have six demands including agricultural law, MSP, arrest of farmers, compensation to the families of farmers killed during the agitation. We hope that the government will convene a meeting as soon as possible to discuss these issues.
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, on the other hand, tweeted that the country does not have a monarchy, adding that advertisements on TV would not send farmers back home and the government would have to talk to farmers. It remains to be seen whether the government will come forward to talk to farmers on other issues. Another farmer leader, Gurnam Singh Chadhuni, said the meeting discussed issues like MSP, withdrawal of cases registered against farmers. Joginder Singh Ugraha, president of the Indian Farmers Union (Ugraha), said at Tikri Border that no decision has been taken yet to withdraw the tractor march. A decision on this could be taken at Sunday's meeting of SKM's core committee.
Apart from all this, the United Front also released a press release in which the farmers have stated their intentions. He said that when Prime Minister Modi announced his government's decision to repeal the three black agricultural laws, he remained silent on the remaining demands of farmers. So far more than 50 farmers have made sacrifices in the farmers' movement and the Indian government has not even accepted their sacrifices to pay tribute. Hundreds of farmers have been implicated in hundreds of false cases in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and other places.
Regarding the forthcoming programs of the farmers, it has been stated that a tractor and bullock cart parade will be held in the capitals along with other protests on the occasion of the completion of one year of the farmers' movement on November 9 in various states far from Delhi. On the 9th, a large Maharashtra-wide farmer-labor mahapanchayat will be organized in Mumbai's Azad Maidan under the banner of United Farming Workers' Front with more than 100 organizations. From November 4, tractor trolleys of 200 protesters daily will march peacefully and disciplinedly to Parliament.

We will go home only after the government accepts six demands: Tikait
Representatives of the central government talk to farmers' organizations.
The Center agrees to legislate on the issue of support price (MSP).
Cases against the thousands of agitating farmers and their leaders were withdrawn and compensation was paid to the farming families who died in the agitation.
The issue of electricity bill is resolved.
The victims of Lakhimpur Khiri scandal get justice and the guilty are punished.
Resolve the issue of air pollution associated with burning of farmers' straw.