Delhi is getting ready for more farmer protests. Farmers will start marching toward the national capital on Monday, December 2, as reported by news source ANI. Sukhbir Khalifa, a leader from the Bhartiya Kisan Parishad (BKP), said they are calling for fair payment and better benefits from new farming laws.
Khalifa mentioned, “We will begin our march from under the Maha Maya flyover in Noida. We expect to arrive in Delhi by noon to demand our rights.”
On the same day, other farmer groups like the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which are not political, will begin their own marches on December 6. Farmers in Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Tamil Nadu will also have symbolic marches to their local assemblies that day.
Farmers from the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) at the Shambhu border, which is between Punjab and Haryana, plan to join these protests on December 6. They have been staying at these border points since February when they were stopped from marching to Delhi by security forces.
The first group of farmers, or “jatha,” will be led by farmers’ leaders like Satnam Singh Pannu and Surinder Singh Chautala. They will carry important supplies and plan to walk peacefully to Delhi. The farmers will march daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and sleep outdoors at night. Along the way, they will stop at places like Jaggi city center in Ambala and the Mohra grain market in Haryana.
What are the Farmers Asking For?
Farmers want a legally guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP), loan waivers for farmers, pensions for farm workers, no increases in electricity costs, and the withdrawal of police cases against them. They also want justice for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence and compensation for families of farmers who died during previous protests.
A government team, including Union ministers Arjun Munda and Piyush Goyal, met with farmers on February 18, but the farmers rejected the offer to buy certain crops at MSP for five years. KMSC leader Sarwan Singh Pandher criticized the government for stopping talks with farmers. “They aren’t talking to us anymore. We want a legal guarantee on the MSP for crops,” he said
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