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Farmers’ March To Parliament: Here Are The Key Demands

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More farmers will join the agitation later in the week,  December 6, with the march proceeding daily from 9 am to 5 pm. The protesting farmers will spend the nights on the road.

Amid the ongoing winter session of the parliament, Farmers will march towards the Parliament complex on Monday. According to NDTV, Bhartiya Kisan Parishad (BKP) leader Sukhbir Khalifa had announced on Sunday that the march till the Parliament complex will press the demand for compensation and benefits under the new agricultural laws.

What are the farmers demanding?

Under the banners of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM), the farmers have been protesting at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points between Punjab and Haryana since February. The demonstrating farmers have been pushing for compensation and benefits guaranteed under the newly enacted agricultural laws.

The farmers’ five key demands include the Allocation of 10 per cent plots and 64.7 per cent increased compensation under the old acquisition law.

Four times the market rate compensation and 20 per cent plots should be given on the land acquired after January 1, 2014, children of landless farmers should be given the benefit of employment and rehabilitation, government orders on the issues passed by the High Power Committee and proper settlement of the populated areas should be done.

More farmers will join the agitation later in the week,  December 6, with the march proceeding daily from 9 am to 5 pm. The protesting farmers will spend the nights on the road.

A three-member panel of Union ministers – Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal, and Nityanand Rai – had met with farmer representatives in February this year, but the farmers rejected the Centre’s proposal to purchase pulses, maize, and cotton at the MSP for five years.

Apart from a legal guarantee on the MSP, the agitated farmers are demanding a farm loan waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in the electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.

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