New Delhi. For more than a year, the farmer leaders along with their friends staged a sit-in against the agricultural laws. During this, a demand was also raised on the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP). Farmer leaders said that a law should be made to guarantee MSP. Without this he was not ready to end the movement. In the past, the Modi government formed a committee to discuss the MSP. In this, the names of their representatives were sought from the farmers’ organizations. The first meeting of this committee is scheduled to be held on August 22, but the United Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is the largest organization of farmers and at the forefront of the movement, has not yet sent the names of its members to the government to attend the meeting. In such a situation, now the question is whether the peasant movement was only political?
Former Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal is to preside over this meeting on MSP. It also has experts in the field of agriculture. Till now the farmers organization has not sent the names of its 3 members. It seems that no one will take part in the meeting on MSP from their side. Let us tell you that during the farmers’ movement, SKM member and BKU general secretary Rakesh Tikait had raised the maximum number of attacks on the MSP, but he has also kept silent about the meeting. Apart from Tikait, SKM leader Yogendra Yadav has also not opened his mouth on this issue yet.
A statement of Yogendra Yadav also became quite viral in the past. In this, he was saying that the farmer leaders had prepared a pitch for SP President Akhilesh Yadav in UP by agitating, if he could not bat, then what can we do. At the same time, during the UP assembly elections, the photo of Rakesh Tikait was also put in the hoarding of the SP. Now with the names not being sent for the meeting, it seems that the farmers’ agitation was done only to create an atmosphere against the BJP in the UP assembly elections. If this was not the case, then why would the farmers organization and its leaders keep silent on the most important demand of MSP.