The farmers’ Delhi march has been stopped at the Shambhu border on the Punjab and Haryana border. A group of 101 farmers started a march on foot to Delhi on Friday. However, they were stopped after a few meters. Haryana Police has asked these farmers not to proceed further. Ambala district administration has banned the gathering of 5 or more persons in one place. Meanwhile, a large number of security personnel have also been deployed on the Haryana border. Politics has now started on this issue and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has stated it.
Rahul Gandhi said this on the farmers’ movement.
Rahul Gandhi wrote on the social media site X, ‘Farmers want to come to Delhi to put forward their demands before the government and express their pain. Firing tear gas shells on them and trying to stop them in various ways is reprehensible. The government should listen to their demands and problems seriously. The suffering of the food providers can be gauged from the fact that today in the country, one farmer is forced to commit suicide every hour. The country has not forgotten the martyrdom of more than 700 farmers in the first farmer movement due to the extreme insensitivity of the Modi government.’
What are the demands of the farmers?
He further wrote, ‘We understand the pain of the farmers and support their demands. The government should immediately implement all the demands includinga legal guarantee of MSP, MSP 1.5 times the comprehensive cost of farming as per the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission, loan waiver. The country will be prosperous only when the farmers are prosperous.’ Let us tell you that there are some demands of the farmers, which include making MSP guarantee a law, fixing the price on the report of the Swaminathan Commission, loan waiver of farmers, re-implementation of the Land Acquisition Act 2013, cancellation of Electricity Amendment Bill 2020, punishment to the culprits of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, compensation to the farmer family killed in the movement and Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan speaking about it in the Rajya Sabha.