Cautioning the Centre that the 2020-21 farmers’ protests were just a trailer, activists of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said here on Monday that the real film will begin if the Centre goes back on the promises given to the farmers at the time of suspending the agitations in December, 2021.
Speaking on the future of the farmers’ movement at a seminar organised by P Sundarayya Memorial Trust at Gandhi Peace Foundation, senior leader of the SKM Darshan Pal said politically important months are ahead and political benefits of the farmers’ struggles will be reflected in the upcoming State elections and 2024 general elections. “We will remain as a united force. People’s movement will defeat the BJP. We will resolve whatever differences are there among the SKM,” Dr. Pal said.
SKM leader Rakesh Tikait said the next course of the movement will begin from Bihar, which will be to protect the farmers’ right over markets and for proper prices for what they produce. The next meeting of the SKM, scheduled for September 6, will decide future course of the movement, he added.
