Inquilab zindabad ! Peasants Movement zindabad !!
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIA BY ALL INDIA KHET MAJDOOR KISAN SABHA ( AIKMKS )
s Unite with the ongoing Peasants Movement in the country ! s Repeal the Three anti- farmers and pro- corporate Farm Acts ! s Guarantee the government purchases of farm products on MSP ! s Withdraw the Electricity Amendment Bill , 2020 ! s Ensure the supply of farm inputs on cheap prices ! s Implement the radical land reforms !
Dear friends ,
The Central Government under the leadership of Narendra Modi has imposed the three antifarmers & pro-corporate Farm Acts on the peasants of the country ignoring the rights of the state governments during the Corona period . These three farm acts – the Farming Produce Trade and Commerce ( Promotion & Facilitation ) Act 2020 ; the Farmers ( Empowerment and Protection ) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 ; the Essential Commodities ( Amendment ) Act , 2020 are anti-people which will in reality dismantle the agricultural marketing ( APMC ), enable the corporate sector to directly purchase the farm produce , dismantle the system of M . S . P ., promote the contract farming , establish the control & hegemony of native & foreign big capitalists on agricultural sector , enhance the hoarding and black marketing and open the entire agricultural sector in favor of open market under the neo liberal policies of pro- imperialist WTO . Lacs of peasants of the country are sitting on dharnas on the borders of Delhi against the three Farm Acts since last two months . They are carrying on the agitation . Till now eleven round of talks have been held between the central government and the farmers ’ leaders , but the government has
March , April - 2021 taken a stubborn attitude and is not ready to accept the just demands of the peasants . More than 150 peasants have got martyrdom in the midst of biting cold of the winter season . But the morale of agitating farmers is very high and they are determined in their resolve that they will not go to their home until & unless the repeal of the three Farm Acts ( Kanoon wapsi nahin to Ghar wapsi nahin ).
This attack of the central government is directed against the farmers of India which is dominated by peasant masses . More than 65 % of the Country ’ s population reside in the villages and more than 50 % of people of the country is dependent on agriculture for their livelihood . The agricultural sector generates maximum opportunities of employment till date . Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of our country . It has been aptly proved in the Corona lockdown time . More over the government is placing the agricultural sector into the hands of corporate houses in the interests of imperialism . Actually this is a ploy to massively displace the peasants from agriculture and supply them as cheap laborers in the cities .
On the other hand the government in the centre is draining the people ’ s money freely to fill the coffers of big industrialists . During the last 5 years the corporate houses in connivance with the government have not refunded almost 17 lac crores of loans they had taken from the banks and the central government had written them off and waived 50 lac crores of tax amount during last 16 years in the name of NPA . But when the matter comes to help the peasant community , the government start talking about the dearth of funds . Agricultural expert Dr . Devendra Sharma is of the opinion that the government can take the responsibility of purchasing of agricultural products on MSP in the country by providing only Rs . 4 lac crores for the agricultural sector . But when it comes to the question of providing economic assistance to the workers and peasants , all the governments true to their servitude to imperialism & corporate houses refuse to oblige . The NDA Government under the leadership of BJP has already surpassed the Congress led UPA government in implementing the pro- imperialist policies of liberalization , globalization and privatization . This government is handing over all the sectors including public industry , health services , education sector , electricity , water , road etc . to the open market throwing away the veil of Welfare State . The consequences are quite evident in the form of price rises . Everything is going out of the reach of common
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