Kisan Mukti March: Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal join Kisan protest as agitating farmers said, 'No acche din for us'

Amidst the rising demands of the farmers in Delhi, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi are set to join the agitating farmers and thereby will raise their voices against the BJP government.

More than 1 lakh farmers are protesting in Delhi and have planned to march inside the Parliament with their demands to get minimum support price and a debt clearance from the government.

The farmer suicide has been increasing in the last 4-5 years, especially in Marthawada, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab but the policies of the Modi government are till being criticized. Although, Modi government came up with crop insurance schemes, certain BJP ruled states waived off the farmer’s loan and even promised to provide a minimum support price for the crops but still the agrarian distress is significant and farmers are not getting the yield or the cost of production.

Now, Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi, NCP’s Sharad Pawar and JDS’ HD Deve Gowda have lent their support to the campaign of farmers and will also be joining the march very soon.

The protest is being led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Swaraj Abhiyan’s Yogendra Yadav, and the march also features veteran rural journalist and author P. Sainath.

Farmers from Odisha, Maharashtra, West Bengal, UP and Haryana have joined Yogendra Yadav who has said to the NDTV, “We are protesting loot and exploitation of farmers. The entire country is with us. Journalists, doctors, students, artists have pledged their support.”

The farmers are relenting their voices of concern as the MS Swaminathan report were never implemented by the NDA government and hence, it became a political jumla for the election campaign.

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