Farmers leaders squarely blamed the Union Home Minister Amit Shah for conspiring to unleash severe repression on Punjab farmers in an attempt to isolate Punjab and make electoral use of this in the rest of the country.
Haryana CM Khattar and Anil Vij illegally and unconstitutionally sent forces across the state border to fire bullets, pellets and tear shells and damage hundreds of farmer's tractors standing there.
Thereafter they commanded farmers not to bring tractors on roads, in a posture of fascist demolition of farmers property, akin to bulldozer Raj being practised elsewhere. It is to protest this anti-farmer assault that SKM stood tractors on the road and held protests meets.
SKM leaders explained that the MSP legal guarantee at a profitable rate of C2+50% and cheap ration are twin needs for survival of peasantry and working population of India. Govt policy, shrouded in religious camouflage, is promoting foreign capital and big corporations in agricukture, increasing input prices, decreasing crop sale prices, controlling food supply chain and taking over land and water resources and thus ruining peasant economy.
They said govt is not only implementing anti people policy, it is bent upon fascist repression of people to serve profit needs of rich exploiters.WTO's demand that the Minimum Support Price policy be withdrawn, is not just an assault on crores of farmers of India, but also an attack on India's sovereignty.
Similar Free Trade Agreements being pushed on India, are against farmers and the larger interests of Indian citizens. Samyukta Kisan Morcha will hold a Massive Kisan Mahapanchayat at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on 14 March, which will see the participation of farmers from across the nation.