INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kurukshetra district on Monday, to demand minimum support price (MSP) for sunflower seed.Hundreds of farmers gathered at the grain market in
Pipli, where leaders of several farm unions addressed them on the issue of MSP and raised slogans against Manohar Lal Khattar and Dushyant
Singh Chautala-led Haryana coalition government.The farmers also raised the issue of the arrest of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Charuni
national president Gurnam Singh Charuni and eight other workers of his union and demanded their release.Among those who addressed the
farmers included Balbir Singh Rajewal, Rakesh Tikait, Sarvan Singh Pandher, Manjit Singh Rai, Surjit Singh Phul, Jagdeep Singh Aulakh,
Surjit Singh Koth, Sukhwinder Singh Longowal, Amarjit Singh Mohri, Abhimanyu Kohar, and others
Olympian wrestler Bajrang Punia also reached the rally to offer his support to the demand of farmers and addressed.During the rally, the
farmers gave an ultimatum to the Haryana government to hold talks with them before 2pm
Following this, on receiving a message from the administration, a local committee of BKU Charuni went to hold talks with Kurukshetra deputy
Two rounds of dialogues between farmers and state government officials remained inconclusive.At about 2pm, after inconclusive talks, the
farm leaders returned to the main stage of mahapanchayat to announce their decision, when they gave a call to block the National Highway
(NH) 44 (GT Road) for an indefinite period of time.After talks with the government, BKU Charuni Haryana state executive president Karam
firm assurance (of the MSP)
The officials said they would arrange our talks with CM Sahib (Haryana chief minister) who is in Karnal
But when we went to follow up, the officials said the CM had left
The issue of MSP is very big
Today, they are breaking the MSP of sunflower, tomorrow; they will do the same with paddy and wheat
The decision on MSP from this mahapanchayat will write the destiny of farmers of the entire nation
No one should leave, whether it takes a week or 10 days until our demands are met
that we are holding discussion with the CM Sir, who was busy in his program in Karnal
We sought more time for 30 minutes from the farmers, but they left the meeting and announced to block NH-44
The farmers and unions decided to hold a maha panchayat at Pipli on June 12 and that whatever decision is taken from here will be
implemented in the entire country
The gathering is on the question of MSP and that too not on a single crop but of MSP on all the crops in the nation
The governments announce the MSP, but procurement does not take place on the same
The farmers of the nation need the law guaranteeing the MSP
A big andolan (agitation) will take place on this issue and you cannot suppress it with lathis
the arrested farmers (Charuni and others) should be released and guarantee of procurement of crops on MSP should be ensured.Balbir Singh
We only demand that the government should bring law to guarantee procurement on MSP and if procured below that, it should be declared as an
The government will have to pay for each cane charged on Gurnam Singh Charuni and his associates
The farmers are demanding the minimum support price for their crops, nothing extra
I appeal to the government to give us the MSP of our crops
The government has failed to take action against Ajay Mishra Teni (Union MoS) in the case of an incident at UP (Lakhimpur Kheri)
As we are now struggling against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the farmers had earlier fought against Ajay Mishra
The government did not take any action against both these people, which is uniting us
We do not know how to talk as so far we had done training to bring medals for the country
But after we see farmers on the roads, we feel pain
