Farmers in Noida are protesting and have told the Central government to meet their needs within a week. If their demands are not met, they plan to march to Parliament. Sukhbir Khalifa, a leader of the farmers’ group Bhartiya Kisan Parishad (BKP), shared that they have temporarily moved their protest to Ambedkar Park on Noida Link Road.
The farmers want important issues addressed, including a law that guarantees Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for their crops. Earlier, farmers from Punjab tried to head to Delhi to discuss MSPs but faced police barriers and heavy traffic near the Delhi-Noida border. Police set up barriers and increased security to manage the situation.
The big protest called ‘Delhi Chalo,’ organized by BKP with other farmer groups, is asking for better support for farmers, like making MSPs a law, waiving farm loans, pension plans for farmers and workers, not raising electricity prices, dropping police cases against farmers, and seeking justice for victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence. They also want changes to a land law and compensation for families of farmers who died during past protests in 2020-2021.
In the meantime, another group of farmers from Punjab plans to march to Delhi on December 6.
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