The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has rejected on Tuesday the Centre’s invitation to join the committee, headed by former Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal, on the minimum support price (MSP) and other issues in the farming sector. The Centre had left three positions vacant for SKM nominees in the panel, which was announced on Monday.
The SKM said in a release that there is no scope to discuss the MSP law in the agenda of a committee, which is full of government representatives and its loyalists. “All the apprehensions of the SKM about this committee turned out to be true. SKM cannot have any association with such anti-farmer committee,” the umbrella organisation said.
SKM leaders Hannan Mollah, Darshan Pal, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, Yudhveer Singh and Yogendra Yadav said in the statement that they have decided not to nominate SKM representative in the committee. They said there is no rationale for sending representatives of the SKM to such an anti-farmer and meaningless committee.
