: Our demands have not been fulfilled yet, say farmer bodies after announcement of Assembly poll dates #IndiaNEWS As the Election Commission on Saturday announced dates for Assembly elections in five

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Our demands have not been fulfilled yet, say farmer bodies after announcement of Assembly poll dates #IndiaNEWS
As the Election Commission on Saturday announced dates for Assembly elections in five states, farmer leaders pointed out that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government was yet to fulfil some of the key demands raised during their year-long protests against the farm laws, PTI reported.“Our main demands to give us a legal guarantee on minimum support price and expel Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni from the Cabinet are still not fulfilled,� Abhimanyu Singh Kohar, a member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha told PTI. “People are unhappy with the BJP and these issues will play a decisive role in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh [elections].�On December 9, the umbrella body of farmer unions had called off the agitation after the Centre, in a proposal, assured action on pending demands. This was after the farm laws were withdrawn in Parliament on November 29.The Centre had proposed a panel to decide on the ways in which minimum support price for crops could be assuredly provided. The Minimum Support Price is the rate at which the government buys farm produce and is based on a calculation of at least one and a half times the cost of production incurred by farmers. Market rates for many crops are usually well below the...Read more

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