Alleging that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has reneged on its promises made at the time of the withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws, farmers, under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), staged a demonstration in front of the Prakasam Bhavan here on August 9 (Wednesday), seeking the intervention of President Droupadi Murmu in this regard.
Leading the protest coinciding with the Quit India Movement Day, SKM Prakasam district convener Ch. Ranga Rao said that the Centre had agreed to enact a law to provide remunerative minimum support price (MSP) for various farm produces as per the formula evolved by agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan (C2 plus 50%), which formed the basis for farmers withdrawing their protracted struggle for justice.
Dubbing the big corporate firms involved in the delivery of farm inputs including fertilizers, pesticides and seeds and also marketing of agri-products as ‘corporate looters’, the farmers cutting across party lines wanted such firms to ‘quit the sector’.
