The All India Kisan Sabha warned that India-US trade talks may hurt farmers by opening agriculture to imports. Marking its 90th anniversary, the organisation raised concerns over land acquisition, farm distress and renewed demands for MSP guarantee and reforms
Several farmer organisations, including SKM and AIKS, criticised the India-US trade framework as a threat to Indian agriculture, demanding Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s resignation and announcing nationwide protests and a February 12 general strike to oppose the agreement
It further alleged that the "innovative" methods to annihilate the peasantry invented by the Modi government are sought to be 'hidden in the larger framework of the nationalist narrative'.
On Monday, thousands of farmers from Maharashtra had left for Delhi from Nashik in vehicles to join the ongoing agitation seeking the repeal of the legislations
Undeterred by the winter chill, thousands of farmers have stayed put at various border points of Delhi for the past nine days as part of their protest against the Centre's farm laws.
