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Farmers threaten pan-India protest over MSP
Updated On: 13 June, 2023 08:24 AM IST | Kurukshetra | Agencies
Tikait said the government should procure sunflower on MSP and the farmer leaders be released.
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Farmers block NH-44, in Kurukshetra, on Monday. Pic/PTI
Farmers on Monday blocked the Delhi-Chandigarh highway after holding a mahapanchayat in this district to press for minimum support price for sunflower seed. Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) would start a pan-India agitation if a law for MPS, “as promised by the Union government”, is not brought.
The “MSP Dilao, Kisan Bachao mahapanchayat”, called by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni), was held at a grain market in Pipli close to National Highway-44. After the mahapanchayat the farmers gathered on the highway, blocking it. At the mahapanchayat, farmer leader Karam Singh Mathana said the local administration had assured them of a meeting with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to discuss their demands. “But now they say the chief minister has left Karnal”, hence the blockade.
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