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Rakesh Tikait demands Centre enact law to guarantee minimum support price for farmers

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Pune: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday demanded that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Central government must enact a law guaranteeing a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops and to protect the interests of farmers in the country.

Claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had advocated the MSP while he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, Tikait said that Modi at the time had wanted a nationwide law to ensure that farmers’ interests were guaranteed. However, now at the Centre today he was deliberately skirting a debate on the issue, charged Tikait. 

The BKU leader was in Mumbai to participate in a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ (farmers’ mega conclave) held in the city’s Azad Maidan under the umbrella of the Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha (SSKM). Tikait is also leader of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha – a federation of farmers and other outfits that has been protesting against the three farm laws which were recently repealed. 

Tikait further remarked, “The Centre should enact a law guaranteeing MSP to farmers. There are several issues related to the agriculture and labour sectors that need attention and we will travel all over the country to highlight them”.

The BKU leader further demanded that financial aid be given to the kin of farmers who died during the year-long protest against the three agriculture laws introduced by the Centre and finally rolled back by the PM earlier this month. 

Earlier this week. Tikait was in Hyderabad where he had said that it was the onus of every government in the country to come to the aid of the kin of the 750-odd farmers who lost their lives agitating against the three farm laws. 

Among the demands of the protesting farmers camped at Delhi’s borders since November last year had been the revocation of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act besides a new law enacted to guarantee the MSP on crops. 

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