Karmika Karshaka Sankharavam, a meeting against the farm laws and the labor law, decided to involve women in the agitation against the “black laws” and promised to fight a relentless fight until the laws were repealed.
The speakers at the meeting also supported the ongoing agitation against the privatization of the Visakhapatnam Steel Mill (VSP).
The Sankharavam was organized here on Monday by Andhra Pradesh Raithu Sanghala Samanvaya Committee and AP Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
Speakers said the 500 farmers’ unions across the country would extend their full support for the VSP agitation. The slogan – Visakha Ukku Andhrula Hakku (Visakha Steel is the right of the Andhraites) is hereafter referred to as “Visakha Steel, civil right,” they claimed.
Rakesh Singh Tikait, chairman of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), said the farm laws affect not only farmers but other sections as well. Company houses and private actors would exploit hunger commercially, as ultimately all food grains procured by farmers would end up in private warehouses.
The agitation of the farmers would be brought to all states in order to put more pressure on the “apathetic and intransigent” Union government. Tractors should play an important role in movement. The women were also asked to join the agitation, he said.
The entire Indian President of Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Ashok Dhawale, claimed that the Union government had “murdered democracy and the parliamentary system” by taking advantage of their numerical strength in parliament. Up to four lakh farmers ended their lives in the country after the BJP came to power in the center, he said.
“With the farm laws enacted by the center, 81 million people would be deprived of rationing facilities. India ranks 94th in the hunger index. But the Ambanis and Adanis fortunes have increased by 50%, ”said Dhawale.
The President of the AIKS Punjab Unit, Balkaran Singh, the AIW President B. Venkat, the Committee Congress Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, the President of AP Rythu Sangham, Y. Kesava Rao, and the President of AP Rythu Sangham, KVV Prasad, spoke.