Twelve major opposition parties have extended their support to the call given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha to observe countrywide protest on May 26, marking six months of the farmers protest at Delhi borders against the Centre’s farm laws.
The joint statement has been signed by Sonia Gandhi (Congress), H D Deve Gowda (Janata Dal-Secular), Sharad Pawar (Nationalist Congress Party), Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), M K Stalin (Dravida Munnetra kazhagam), Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), Farooq Abdullah (Nationalist Conference), Akhilesh Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Tejaswi Yadav (Rashtriya Janata Dal), D Raja (Communist Party of India) and Sitaram Yechury (Communist Party of India-Marxist).
“On May 12, we had jointly written to Prime Minister Modi saying the following: Repeal farm laws to protect lakhs of our annadatas becoming victims of the pandemic so that they can continue to produce food to feed the Indian people. We demand the immediate repeal of the farm laws and the legal entitlement to the Minimum Support Price of C2+50 per cent as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission, the joint statement said.
It also said that the Central Government must stop being obdurate and immediately resume talks with the SKM on these lines.
-PTI
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