25-07-2025
Farmer forum Kisan Mazdoor Morcha to support SKM call for tractor marches against AAP govt's land pooling policy
Bathinda: Farmer forum Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) has decided to support the call by Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) for tractor marches against the AAP govt's land pooling policy.
in villages across Punjab on July 30 and a rally in Jalandhar on Aug 20.
The decisions were made at the morcha national committee meeting held in Delhi on Friday.
The morcha leaders stated that the land pooling policy is anti-farmer as the state govt is eyeing thousands of acres of fertile land in the state. The AAP govt is proceeding with collecting land even as farmers are not ready to hand it over in many places, according to the morcha.
At the meeting held with Grameen Kisan Mazdoor Samiti president Harwinder Singh Gill and PT John from Kerala in the chair, morcha leader Sarvan Singh Pandher said that issues ranging from the legal right of MSP on crops according to the C2+50% formula as per the Dr M S Swaminathan commission, debt waiver, farm suicides, free trade agreement with the US, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, and the electricity bill 2022 were discussed.
An invitation will also be sent to SKM to resume the unity talks in a joint meeting at Chandigarh on August 26.
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Kisan panchayats ahead of Delhi mahapanchayat on Aug 25
Farmer forum Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) has decided to hold kisan panchayats across the states ahead of its kisan mahapanchayat in New Delhi on Aug 25. The forum has decided to hold a kisan panchayat at Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh on July 30, Ludhiana in Punjab on Aug 7, Panipat in Haryana on Aug 10, Ganganagar in Rajasthan on Aug 11, Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh on Aug 14, Aligarh in UP on Aug 17, and Sambhal in UP on Aug 18.
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