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NEW DELHI: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), a constituent of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) that coordinated the farmers protest movement, alleged on Wednesday that individual farmer leaders including leaders from the 9-member core team of the SKM have been getting “clandestine” calls from ministers, police officers and government officials, asking them to meet with them for talks.
“There has been no invitation for formal talks from the government and we are waiting for a response since we wrote a letter to the Prime Minister,” said AIKS general secretary Hannan Mollah, at a press conference here on Wednesday. “We will wait till December 4 and decide at the SKM meeting about our next move,” he added.
“We condemn the government’s efforts to contact individual leaders to divide us and break the movement … unity is our strength … that is why we won and the government had to repeal the three farm laws. Our farmer leaders have come and told the SKM at our daily informal meetings that they have been called,” Mollah said. He added that officials from RAW, IB, home ministry and agriculture ministry have been calling up farmer leaders.
“Our movement is on and our first demand is for compensation to the family of about 700 martyrs who were killed because of the government’s arrogance. We also demand the cases to be withdrawn against all the farmer leaders and activists that have been filed in different states across the country. The other demand is for a legal guarantee for MSP,” said Vijoo Krishnan, AIKS joint secretary.
AIKS finance secretary P Krishna Prasad said, “there has been official communication from the government and we have attended 12 meeting with the government, so they know how to invite us and that is not through individual contact of the kind that they are trying.”
“There has been no invitation for formal talks from the government and we are waiting for a response since we wrote a letter to the Prime Minister,” said AIKS general secretary Hannan Mollah, at a press conference here on Wednesday. “We will wait till December 4 and decide at the SKM meeting about our next move,” he added.
“We condemn the government’s efforts to contact individual leaders to divide us and break the movement … unity is our strength … that is why we won and the government had to repeal the three farm laws. Our farmer leaders have come and told the SKM at our daily informal meetings that they have been called,” Mollah said. He added that officials from RAW, IB, home ministry and agriculture ministry have been calling up farmer leaders.
“Our movement is on and our first demand is for compensation to the family of about 700 martyrs who were killed because of the government’s arrogance. We also demand the cases to be withdrawn against all the farmer leaders and activists that have been filed in different states across the country. The other demand is for a legal guarantee for MSP,” said Vijoo Krishnan, AIKS joint secretary.
AIKS finance secretary P Krishna Prasad said, “there has been official communication from the government and we have attended 12 meeting with the government, so they know how to invite us and that is not through individual contact of the kind that they are trying.”
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