Farmer associations and labour unions will hold joint struggles to unseat the ‘‘anti-farmer’‘ and ‘‘corporate-friendly Narendra Modi government” at the Centre, said All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) national general secretary Vijoo Krishnan on Friday.
Addressing a farmers’ meeting here, he said the three Farm Acts brought earlier and the amendments to the Electricity Act were all part of the game-plan to squeeze farmers out of cultivation. ‘‘It is in this context that united struggles to ensure statutory backing for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime with assured procurement has to intensified”. Also, smart meters on farm pump sets, planned with an ‘‘ulterior motive’‘ to withdraw power subsidy over a period, should be stopped at any cost, he asserted.
