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Punjab Farmers Reject Centre's MSP Proposal, To Resume 'Dilli Chalo' March: Here's All You Need To Know
Protesting Farmers. (Representative Image)
Farmer leaders from Punjab have rebuffed the Centre's recent proposal regarding Minimum Support Price (MSP), vowing to restart their 'Dilli Chalo' agitation to demand a legal guarantee of MSP for all crops.
The rejection comes in response to the government's offer of MSP on three pulses, maize, and cotton through cooperatives.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal expressed dissatisfaction with the Centre's proposal, asserting that it does not favor the farmers' interests.
“We stand by our demand of legal guarantee for MSP on all 23 crops,” he told reporters.
Similarly, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee general secretary Sarvan Singh Pandher announced, “We will start marching towards Delhi. We should be allowed to protest."
"We have every right to launch an agitation. There is no need for any meeting. The government should take decisions now. There have been enough discussions," he said.
Earlier, In the fourth round of talks with farmer leaders, a panel of three Union ministers on Sunday (18 February) had proposed the buying of pulses, maize, and cotton crops by government agencies at minimum support prices for five years after entering into an agreement with farmers.
However, farmer leaders criticized the plan, labeling it as contract farming disguised as diversification.
Meanwhile, the protesting farmers' groups in Noida and Greater Noida on Monday (19 February) said they will march to Delhi on 23 February to press for a resolution of their issues, including developed plots and increased compensation for their land acquired in the past.
